QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 181 



MAKING A DOG RUN MUTE 



As to making a dog run mnte, there is a pretty 

 houndish looking dog occasionally that will al- 

 most still hunt. Airedale and hound have made 

 a good cross for a gentleman here. The bull 

 terrier and hound also make good. As an all- 

 around small dog, I like an Irish terrier and 

 beagle. Now you said that whenever a fellow 

 was stumped to write you. I am badly stumped. 

 I have been trying for seven years to get a rabbit 

 dog that I can enjoy, but to no avail. Getting 

 stung every time I send away and so on has al- 

 most got me cornered. I have several hundred 

 in it, too. What I would really like is a dog like 

 those New York long-ear or symmetrical red bone 

 of the American standard or medium light dogs 

 that are rough enough to hunt all week, hard, 

 from sun up to sun down, resting of nights ; that 

 are willing hunters; that don't hunt too far away 

 from one; who seem to know where to look for 

 a rabbit; and that can and will take a track run 

 the night before, trail it up to noon and jump, 

 trailing straight, not going over and over their 

 tracks or poking around, but trail them up at a 

 fair rate of speed for trailing. When one jumps, 



