THE PATAPSCO 



were very fortunate in 1 907 and shall have about eleven couples of puppies 

 come in from walk for our annual Puppy Show in June of this year ( 1 908). 

 In 1 906, we had no luck at all, for during November distemper broke out 

 in the kennels and we lost all our best hounds, reducing our pack from twenty- 

 five couples to six and a half couples, so that, had it not been for the sports- 

 manlike assistance of Mr. Redmond C. Stewart, M. F. H. of the Green 

 Spring Valley Hunt, who kindly came to our rescue vn\h the loan of four- 

 teen couples from his pack, we should have been in a bad way. These 

 hounds were returned at the close of the season, except one couple which 

 Mr. Stewart sold to us. In 1 905, we bred twelve bitches and lost every 

 puppy whelped, while both the G. S. V. and the Elkridge Hunts had the 

 same luck. 



" The pack we lost was the levelest we have ever had, being almost all 

 marked alike, wdth black saddles, tan heads, white throats and tips to their 

 sterns and all big, strong, upstanding hounds and as fast as lightning. It will 

 be some time before we can produce their equals, but have great hopes for 

 the young entry of 1 908." 



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