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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Half
a
century
ago
the
Bloodhound
was
so
little
esteemed
in
this
country
that
the
breed
was
confined
to
the
kennels
of
a
very
few
owners;
but
the
institution
of
dog
shows
induced
these
owners
to
bring
their
hounds
into
public
exhibition,
when
it
was
seen
that,
like
the
Mastiff,
the
Bloodhound
claimed
the
advantage
of
having
many
venerable
ancestral
trees
to
branch
from.
At
the
first
Birmingham
show,
in
1860,
Lord
Bagot
brought
out
a
team
from
a
strain
which
had
been
in
his
lordship's
family
for
two
centuries,
and
at
the
same
exhibition
there
was
entered
probably
one
of
the
best
Bloodhounds
ever
seen,
in
Mr.
T.
A.
Jenning's
Druid.
Known
now
as
"Old"
Druid,
this
dog
was
got
by
Lord
Faversham's
Raglan
out
of
Baron
Rothschild's
historic
bitch
Fury,
and
his
blood
goes
down
in
collateral
veins
through
Mr.
L.
G.
Morrel's
Margrave,
Prince
Albert
Solm's
Druid,
and
Mr.
Edwin
Brough's
Napier
into
the
pedigrees
of
many
of
the
celebrated
hounds
of
the
present
day.
Another
famous
Druid--grandsire
of
Colonel
Cowen's
hound
of
the
name--was
owned
by
the
Hon.
Grantley
Berkeley.
This
typical
dog
was
unsurpassed
in
his
time,
and
his
talent
in
following
a
line
of
scent
was
astonishing.
His
only
blemish
was
one
of
character;
for,
although
usually
as
good-tempered
as
most
of
the
breed
are,
he
was
easily
aroused
to
uncontrollable
fits
of
savage
anger.
Queen
Victoria
at
various
times
was
the
possessor
of
one
or
more
fine
specimens
of
the
Bloodhound,
procured
for
her
by
Sir
Edwin
Landseer,
and
a
capital
hound
from
the
Home
Park
Kennels
at
Windsor
was
exhibited
at
the
London
Show
in
1869,
the
judge
on
the
occasion
being
the
Rev.
Thomas
Pearce,
afterwards
known
as
"Idstone."
Landseer
was
especially
fond
of
painting
the
majestic
Bloodhound,
and
he
usually
selected
good
models
for
his
studies.
The
model
for
the
hound
in
his
well-known
picture,
"Dignity
and
Impudence,"
was
Grafton,
who
was
a
collateral
relative
of
Captain
J.
W.
Clayton's
celebrated
Luath
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