House and Garden 
centuries since this ruling, but there is still 
a remnant of the feeling remaining and 
we are reluctant to put a clog after a man. 
This reluctance, however, is sentimental 
rather than practical. Should the gen¬ 
eral public obey the scriptural injunction 
and say to every rogue that preyed upon 
society: “Go and sin no more,” we 
should soon have what the old time 
newspaper reporters used to call,“ a holo¬ 
caust of crime in our midst. ” It is quite 
necessary to restrain the vicious and the 
dishonest. I take it the House and 
Garden is of particular interest in 
suburban places. Every one acquainted 
with current events knows that the 
suburban post-offices have been easy 
game for thieves for many years past. 
The thieves appear, blow up the safe, 
take out cash and stamps, disappear and 
there is an end of it. Now if in each 
such neighborhood there were a brace 
of English bloodhounds, a large per¬ 
centage of such thieves would be run to 
earth. The bloodhound can take up 
a scent many hours old and follow it 
truly. He is the best and surest police¬ 
man in the world. But as a dog to be fond 
of.? I know none that excels him. He 
is a model of dignified fidelity. Then 
again he comes near to refuting Mr 
John Burrough’s contention that no 
animal, save man, can reason; indeed 
I believe he does refute it. Take two 
instances within my personal knowledge. 
A bloodhound was lying on my hearth 
in front of an open wood fire. My 
little daughter sat on him and the long 
ears not being to her liking she concluded 
to trim them with a pair of scissors. 
The dog set up a mighty howl but did 
not move. Had he moved the little girl 
would probably have been thrown into 
the fire. Was it instinct or instant rea¬ 
son that restrained that dog ? 
Again, a bloodhound bitch had a new 
litter of puppies. Under such circum¬ 
stances bitches are not kindly to stran¬ 
gers. Some friends were spending the 
day. A little girl escaped from the 
house and wandered into the kennel. 
The bitch did not know her, but she took 
the little girl by the petticoat and led her 
to the house. That was only instinct 
too, I fancy. 
The English bloodhound must not 
be confounded with the bloodhound of 
the South, which is a mongrel with a 
strong admixture of foxhound and 
the dogs do not breed to a fixed [type. 
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