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Show Lost Child's Best Friend . Is Sad-Eyed Bloodhound These Dogs Find Hundreds Of Little Strays Annually Even the expression on bloodhounds' blood-hounds' faces is classed as being .worrisome. But whether they develop devel-op the worry over the possibility of failure (happily rare) in following a gcent or from the Inborn knowledge knowl-edge that their mission in life is not the happy one of canine housepets, we would hardly be in a position. to know. The bloodhound Is among the most useful friends of man. While "your family pet may bring In the morning paper, how would he do in finding your child, lost in some dense woods? He'd fail, no doubt, but not yirough any fault of his own. It's just that the hound-type of dog has been blessed with the keenest scent of all canines, and the bloodhounds' blood-hounds' scent lead all others In keenness. keen-ness. When bloodhounds chased Eliza across the ice In "Uncle Tom's Cab-In" Cab-In" we didn't have much respect for the breed. But under the right masters, mas-ters, the state police, bloodhounds come into their own as peerless 9 trackers of the hunted, criminal, or a lost man or child. Originally the breed, having come upon the hunted quarry, would tear it to pieces. This ferocity has been bred out of the bloodhound, however, and In Its place is a hunting skill implemented by the knowledge of man and a stick-to-lt-Ivcness which brooks no failure. Once the hunted Is found, the dog's job is done, unless ordered to the attack by his master. At the Hawthorne, N. Y., state police po-lice barracks, Cpl. W. W. Horton looks after the canine family. He has five trained hounds, recently supplemented supple-mented by a set of quintuplets he is now training for trailing. Training is begun when a bloodhound is 18 months old and It will take from two to six months before a dog will be entrusted with a mission. As a result of this training many a home Is free from tragedy. So long as children chil-dren will wander off without their parents, so long will the bloodhound be "child's best friend." Pictures show Corporal Dorton allowing al-lowing the dog to take a good whiff of a lost child's clothing. The hound is then taken around the spot where the child was last seen. Once the keen-scented animal gets started in the right direction, he will follow the trail to the end, which Is pictured below. Here the hound comes upon the exhausted child asleep In the underbrush. , |