Show the not 1 ferocious one of the loveliest dogs ever bred one a of f the gentlest and most loyal lias has by some som e curious misapprehension of his qualities fallen into such disrepute that the legislature of the state of massachusetts has enacted a statute which makes it a misdemeanor m ea nor for any one to keep a dog of this breeding within the commonwealth thia this is the bloodhound which is generally supposed to follow the trail of men and catching them to rend their human victims limb from limb if this were the characteristic te of the dog I 1 should not blame those who have contributed to bis his disrepute but as a matter of fact awell a well bred and well trained bloodhound would no more think of jumping upon and biting his quarry than would a pointer spring upon the pheasant or partridge he had scented ills business is not to kill game but to find it I 1 have bave seen a manhunt in the hills bills of vermont the only place where the pure english bloodhound li is bred and when the dogs came up with the men they had trailed they only showed delight at their success and by their cessation from barking indicated to the huntsman that they bad had found their garne game Christian union |