. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. listen to themcoming, and giving the hunter every possible advantage. Basset Hound. The Bloodhotind traces his lineage to the days of cattle
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. listen to themcoming, and giving the hunter every possible advantage. Basset Hound. The Bloodhotind traces his lineage to the days of cattle stealingoutlaus Oh ilu- fronti(;r of Eng-land and Scotland, and was thenknown as a sleuthhound or as aTalbot. Originally he was tall,slow, square-headed, with lonu,pendulous ears, heavy, drooj)ingjaws and lips; had a broad chest,a deep-toned, melodious voice, aslow, untiring gait, and a stern,majestic expression of received his name from thecertainty with which he followedthe track of any wounded animalif he once smelt its blood; freshblood crossing his track, he wouldleave the old and follow the characteristics are partiallydeveloped iu the modern Blood-hound; but of late years he hasbeen less used for heavy work,and may, possibly, have beentransformed into a more companionable, peaceful favorite. In colorhe is either black-and-tan, or tan only. The hair is short and hardon the body and limbs, but silky on the ear and Bloodhound. The St. Bernard Dog has a world-wide reputation, and a historvreplete with intense one or more centuries hehas filled an important missionin the dreary Swiss Alps, at theHospice { or monksiiouse) onthe heights of the Great mountain, where num-bers of these dogs have longbeenkept and trained to hunt forbenumbed and lost travelersamid the snows of that frozenand desolate region. Everymorning at 8 oclock, duringthesevere weather, four monks,their servants and two dogs,leave the hospice and descendthe m
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