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no man can see a deer thirty yards in the Sonth- 

 em brush, and so dogs must be nsed to drive them 

 past stands where one can see to shoot. That is 

 all there is to it, and there is no cause for the 

 hunters of one section to despise those of the 

 other. 



Getting back to the Northern deer and coon- 

 hounds. The Buckfield strain seems to have orig- 

 inated from a regular old-fashioned trailer dog, 

 Tige, and a fast bitch, Skip, a coarse-haired fox- 

 hound, and therefore, probably one of the Plum- 

 mer or Sugar Loafs which were coarse-haired and 

 brindled in colour. One of the puppies of this mat- 

 ing was the famous Gledhill bitch, who proved a 

 wonderful fox hunter, of endless staying quali- 

 ties and able to work the fox in all kinds of 

 weather. She was bred extensively and is the dam 

 of the Buckfield strain. Among her progeny are 

 Dime Buck, Dime Dansforth, Eed Dime, Red 

 Sport and Tomey. The most famous hound of 

 the strain was Jim Blaine, out of the Buckfield 

 bitch. Pert, by a full-blooded Byron hound, of 

 which strain more later. As a rnle the Buckfields 

 are coarse-coated dogs, red or tan, or red and blue 

 mottled, with now and then a black one, a throw- 

 back to old Tige, who was solid black. 



Of the old Redbones but little is known except 



