64 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



families, with the exception of the Byron strain. 

 About 1850 a club of foxhunters in Petersburg, 

 Pa., imported the English bitch, Clio, to breed her 

 to the famous Maryland dog, Rattler. The mat- 

 ing resulted in four notable puppies, Byron, 

 Music, Rattler II and Dido. Byron went to 

 Colonel Tucker, Rattler 11 was retained by Colo- 

 nel Starke (the owner of Clio), Music went to 

 Colonel Hampton, of South Carolina, and Dido 

 went West, where her blood is found in all the 

 best known Kentucky and Tennessee strains. By- 

 ron became very famous and was bred to by the 

 owners of foxhound packs, his name being given 

 to the strain of foxhounds thus sired by him. 



Into other noted strains, such as the Arkansas 

 Traveller, Wild Goose, Robertson, Whitlock, 

 Avent, Cook, etc., it is not necessary to go further 

 here than to generalise that each was founded by 

 some noted dog, bred on original native stock, the 

 blood of the Maryland, Walker and Birdsong (or 

 July) strains being prevalent in all of them. The 

 Williams strain of to-day was developed in the 

 same way from Walker-Maupin stock, improved 

 by the judicious addition of imported English 

 blood, by General Roger D. Williams, of Ken- 

 tucky. Of his champion dogs we may note 

 Scrape, Jip Sharpe, Barney, Scorch, Lee, etc. My 



