Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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allaceendeavoured to urge him on. Promisesand threats were alike useless ; carryhim he could not ; to leave him to betrayhis whereabouts was equally impossible ;so, yielding to the necessity of his hazardouscondition, he struck off the fellows head.Later, when the pursuers reached the sceneof the tragedy, they found their dog by thedead body. The sleuth stopped at Fawden, still shestood,Nor farther would fra time she fund theblood. THE BLOODHOUND. 141 Indeed, the very name of the dog calls upvisions of feudal castles, with their trainsof knights and warriors and all the stirringpanorama of these brave days of old, whenthe only tenure of life, property, or goodswas by the strong hand. In the storiesof Border forays, the Bloodhound constantly St. Huberts, are supposed to have beenbrought by pilgrims from the Holy Land.Another larger breed, also known by thesame name, were pure white, and anotherkind were greyish-red. The dogs of thepresent day are probably a blend of all thesevarieties.
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HUNTSMEN ROASTING A WILD BOAR. From a French Tapestry of the Fifteenth Century. Showing Bloodhounds of the period, and, also, in the background, a Hunting Dog in Armour. appears in pursuit of enemies and fol-lowing gear, and great was the renown ofhim who By wily turns and desperate bounds.Had baffled Percys best bloodhounds. This feudal dog is frequently pictured bythe poet in his ballads and romances, andin The Lady of the Lake we find thebreed again mentioned : Two dogs of black St. Huberts breed,Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed,Fast on his flying traces came.And all but won the desperate game :For scarce a spears length from his haunchVindictive toiled the bloodhounds staunch. These famous black Bloodhounds, called During the French Wars of Henry VIII.Bloodhounds were regularly employed, asthey were also by the Spaniards in Mexicoand Peru. In the days of Queen Elizabeth,it is said, eight hundred Bloodhoundsaccompanied the forces of the Earl of Essexin suppressing the Irish

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