_Scent of the Blood-hound_ (Vol. iv., p. 368.).--C. H. asks whether it
be true that hound loses his scent--
"If he fele swetness of þe flouris."
A few years ago a master of fox-hounds in the New Forest excused some
bad sport in March thus "The hounds can't hunt for those d--d stinking
violets!" rather to the amusement of some of his field.