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as *'red" could outrun and simply play with these 

 old-time foxhounds, so new blood was imported 

 from England, and the American foxhound as we 

 know him to-day began to develop. Meanwhile, 

 the coonhound went his o^vn ways. His job was 

 different, slow cold trailing, running deer and the 

 like, which called for breeding from great per- 

 formers regardless of colour or family strains, so 

 that the coonhound is not a matter of big names 

 but rather of good strains in his selection for pur- 

 chasing. 



Davy Crockett, that king of bear and coon hunt- 

 ers, had one of the best packs of the old South- 

 em coonhound, and, as he gave great numbers of 

 puppies away to political friends, lots of de- 

 scendants of his dogs are extant to-day. His ex- 

 ample was simply an instance of what was going 

 on all over the country, noted hunters giving or 

 selling puppies from their own packs of trained 

 dogs, no stud books being kept, and the result has 

 been an absence of anything like papers of pedi- 

 grees among the coonhounds on sale to-day. That 

 the pup comes of a noted hunting ancestry is about 

 all one has to go on. Two strains are well known, 

 the Redbone, an ancient breed of Southern coon- 

 hound, and the J. E. Williams dogs. Williams ran 

 a kennel of his own up to about 1911 and kept a 



