15 OCTOBER 1898, Page 17

BLOODHOUNDS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Bloodhotmda were kept at the lodges in our New Forest till the Deers' Removal Act of 1851 rendered them unnecessary. Many a story of hunting deer-stealers with the hounds is still current, and I have heard them from an old keeper who himself had taken part in the chase.—I am,