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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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The
Bloodhound,
from
the
nobler
pursuit
of
heroes
and
knights,
came
in
later
years
to
perform
the
work
of
the
more
modern
detective;
but
in
this
also
his
services
were
in
time
superseded
by
the
justice's
warrant
and
the
police
officer.
We
find
it
recorded
about
1805,
however,
that
"the
Thrapston
Association
for
the
Prevention
of
Felons
in
Northamptonshire
have
provided
and
trained
a
Bloodhound
for
the
detection
of
sheep-stealers."
The
reputation
it
obtained
for
sagacity
and
fierceness
in
the
capture
of
runaway
slaves,
and
the
cruelties
attributed
to
it
in
connection
with
the
suppression
of
the
various
negro
risings,
especially
that
of
the
Maroons,
have
given
the
animal
an
evil
repute,
which
more
probably
should
attach
to
those
who
made
the
animal's
courage
and
sagacity
a
means
for
the
gratification
of
their
own
revolting
cruelty
of
disposition.
It
has
been
justly
remarked
that
if
entire
credence
be
given
to
the
description
that
was
transmitted
through
the
country
of
this
extraordinary
animal,
it
might
be
supposed
that
the
Spaniards
had
obtained
the
ancient
and
genuine
breed
of
Cerberus
himself.
Coming
again
to
this
country,
we
find
the
Bloodhound
used
from
time
to
time
in
pursuit
of
poachers
and
criminals,
and
in
many
instances
the
game
recovered
and
the
man
arrested.
There
is
no
doubt
that
the
police
in
country
districts,
and
at
our
convict
prisons,
could
use
Bloodhounds
to
advantage;
but
public
sentiment
is
decidedly
against
the
idea,
and
although
one
of
His
Majesty's
prisons
has
been
offered
a
working
hound
for
nothing,
the
authorities
have
refused
to
consider
the
question
or
give
the
hound
a
trial.
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