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He summoned private sleuth-hounds, and he put them on the trail.
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Like the cry of a pack of sleuth-hounds in the ear of the timid deer came these stern demands to Edward the king.
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Surrounded by enemies more savage than sleuth-hounds, he assumed a humble disguise, and almost alone sailed to in an open boat for the Hebrides.
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And the sleuth-hounds of the law, the paid fighting animals of society, with telephone, and telegraph, and special train, clung to his trail night and day.
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Henry the Minstrel (Blind Harry) The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace 1470 These poems depict their heroes tracked by sleuth hounds. Bruce escapes by crossing water, and Wallace by killing one of his party, whom he suspects of treachery, and leaving the corpse to distract the hound. The poems are romances, not histories, but there is no implausibility about the use of sleuth hounds. John Barbour, who wrote The Bruce, was born before his hero died, and the year in which the Bruce was supposedly pursued was 1307.
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Forests and Chases of England and Wales: A Glossary. St John's College, Oxford. It was prized for its ability to hunt the cold scent of an individual animal, and, though it did not usually take part in the kill, it was given a special reward from the carcass. It also seems that from the earliest times the Bloodhound was used to track people. There are stories written in medieval Scotland of Robert the Bruce (in 1307), and William Wallace (1270–1305) being followed by 'sleuth-hounds'.
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