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began with the introduction of the red fox into the 

 South. Before that the little grey fox afforded 

 all the riding and was easily trailed by the native 

 pioneer's hound. It seemed incredible to the gen- 

 try of that period that the red fox could easily 

 lose their best dogs, and some red foxes had to be 

 imported from England to prove it. Followed 

 then importations of regular English foxhounds, 

 which were crossed on our native bitches to give 

 more speed to their progeny. The oldest and best 

 known strain was the Brooke, brought over from 

 England by Sir Roger Brooke, who came over 

 with Lord Baltimore and settled in Maryland. In 

 1822 Mr. Bolton Jackson imported Mountain and 

 Muse from Ireland and we get most of our fox- 

 hound strains from these and the Brooke dogs, 

 which were extensively crossed. In 1738 a pair 

 of red foxes was brought over by the captain of 

 the tobacco boat Monocacy, and it was their ad- 

 vent into Maryland and the subsequent showing 

 up of our native hounds as too slow that was the 

 direct cause of this importation. The two dogs 

 Mountain and Muse became the property of Gov- 

 ernor Ogle, and their get was bred extensively 

 on the native stock of the fox-hunting gentry of 

 Maryland. 

 One of these hunters, Mr. Gosnell, bred and 



