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Show Ancient Uses of Bloodhounds. Although the use of bloodhounds for tracking criminals still survives, another ancient use of these dogs seems to have died out Bloodhounds were at one time often called upon . to assist an army In the field, tho " forces with which the eari of Essox suppressed tho Irish rebellion in the time of Eiizaboth. for instance, being accompanied by 800 dogs. In the Scottish Scot-tish clan feuds and the wars between England and Scotland bloodhounds were regularly employed in tracking fugitive warriors, and both Wallace and Bruce were hunted in this manner. man-ner. Wallace la said to have baffled his pursuers by killing a follower and leaving the corpse for the hound to find, while Bruce adopted the less cruel plan of wading some distance down a stream and ascending a tree which overhung the water. |