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try; and the American pack was made up from such as 

 could keep company with the leader. 



To breed a red fox pack, it was necessary to mate the 

 best dog with the best bitch; and this method led to the 

 creation of a type peculiar to America not modeled on size, 

 and tongue, and color, and questions of packing well, but 

 a type modeled on speed, courage, and endurance. And 

 the architect of the model was the American red fox; for, 

 in the language of a famous turfman, he it was who cut 

 out the running and set the pace, and to beat him, the race 

 had to be run from " eend to eend." For a pack bred and 

 put together on any other plan, the red fox chase resulted 

 always in one and the same finale, viz. : Reynard first, the 

 rest nowhere. 



Precisely the principle of selection, breeding, and train- 

 ing which produced our great four-milers on the turf, pro- 

 duced our red fox Hounds. The formula is simple, viz. : 

 Breed to the winners. Upon this principle the American 

 Foxhound shaped itself to the model most lit to do the 

 work of killing the red fox, becoming lighter and more 

 rangy in form, and shriller in tongue than its English 

 ancestor. The bones, like those of the race-horse, became 

 notably smaller and lighter, and at the same time more 

 solid and stronger. The lungs also became more capacious, 

 and less encumbered with coarse, inelastic tissue and fat. 

 The muscular fiber finer, and more effectively endowed with 

 contractile power. The heart the great central motor 

 power of the circulation and the contractile muscular 

 coats of the vessels themselves participating in the organic 

 evolution along the same lines of development. 



Thus, in process of time, there came to be American 

 packs capable of dealing with American red foxes on fair 

 terms. The main architect and master builder of those packs 

 was the American red fox. Like that ill-fated eagle which 

 furnished the feather that winged the arrow which pierced 

 his own heart, the American red fox trained those packs 

 which were, eventually, able to kill American red foxes. 

 Without the fox, the packs could not have been produced. 



