Jack llahhit Hunting With Greyhounds 75 



back or in wagons, or with a bicycle. Arri\ang on the open 

 prairie, all the hounds are liberated. The reason they are 

 so securely handled while in town is that they are liable to 

 sight and take a£ter some one's pet dog or cat and kill it 

 before any one can get near enough to stop them. These 

 hounds are mostly used for coursing and have won many of 

 the highest honours at the annual coursing meets in the 

 state. However, they are occasionally taken twenty-five to 

 fifty miles out of town for a special day after coyote. This 

 is certainly the finest pack of greyhounds the writer has ever 

 seen. The Bartel Brothers are very painstaking breeders, 

 and have combined beauty, quaUty and utihty in their hound 

 breeding and succeeded at it as well if not better, than any 

 other hound breeder it has ever been the writer's good fortune 

 to meet in America. 



There is an erroneous behef common to hound breeders 

 in America that a hound for the bench show is one tiling, 

 while a hound for coursing is another. Just because it some- 

 times haj^pens that an inferior looldng hound wins in field 

 trials over bench winners, many men have come to the con- 

 clusion that beauty and symmetry and quality are in some 

 way antagonistic to utihty. 



The Bartel Bros, have demonstrated the falsity of this 

 argument and have proved over and over again that their 

 best winners for bench prizes have repeatedly carried off the 

 highest honours in a three days coursing trial. This demon- 

 strates so forcibly what the writer has been most stoutly 

 contending, that he cannot refrain from calhng attention to 

 it in this case. 



As we ride along, INIr. Bartel gives us most glowing ac- 

 counts of this and that hound, dwelling upon his or her 

 principal points of excellence and not omitting, in equal fair- 

 ness, to call attention to their faults. This is the fastest: 

 that one, the best killer; the brindle bitch has the most en- 



