ANECDOTE OF A BLOODHOUND.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3058, 3 December 1878, Page 2

ANECDOTE OF A BLOODHOUND.

Some years ago an officer of high rank, a colonel in the Blues, was visiting his friend Colonel -—, of the Guards, .who resided in Buckinghamshire.' This gentleman had a very fine blood* hound, which ;jhe kept fastened in the yardi t One 'morning after the arrival of his visitor, Col. —— "a* much' surprised at' 1 not seeing his friend as usual at the breakfasttable, and he sent a servant to his room to ascertain what.had become of him. The servant found the bedroom door ajar, and on knocking,- f the gentleman called out, " Come in and remove this beast x>at of my room," whereupon the '^ervanj entered, and was astonished, to find, hip master's bloodhound in the tbedroo?)* a very large and fierce dog,, who r ;ha4 broken his chain and escaped <froni. jfc* yard, and h«ving scented a, straofar^ HI the house, had slipped into the bearooUk as the door bad been left unelbsediby* servant who had called the visitor in .'the morning. The dog was' on his ntncUtega at the foot of the bed. with' his fbre«fee't i resting on it, fixing bis eyes intently 'arid i ferociously op the unfortunate gentletrilto* i apparently waiting for ah opportunity 1 to spring upon him, 'from which he waa only restrained, by f hti^ prisoner keeping hi* eyes steadily fixed on the animal, and the colonel was detained in' this'most unenviable condition (or more than half* an-hour.—fl. M. Webb.