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take a trail many hours old, in a dry, barren 

 country, puzzle it out for several hours, make a 

 jump and then run it from ten to twenty hours — 

 a feat I have seen performed scores of times by 

 American hounds — would find himself hopelessly 

 out of a job. 



The English hounds have been packed to such 

 an extent as to eradicate the independence and 

 self-reliance so natural to the American hound; 

 the latter hunts independently of hound or man, 

 and seldom expects or receives any assistance 

 from either. 



Mr. Mather, a most enthusiastic hunter and 

 experienced breeder, who has experienced with 

 the English, the American, and the cross-bred 

 hounds, is one of the very few champions of the 

 English hound. His opinion does not seem to 

 be shared by a majority of the members of the 

 Radnor Hunt. While master of the Radnor 

 Hunt, he alternated the hounds, hunting a pack 

 of the English hounds one day, and a pack of 

 American hounds the next. It is a well-known 

 fact that the majority of the hunters always 

 turned out on the day the American pack was 

 run. In his article on English hounds, in the 

 American Sportsmen's Library (Sporting Dogs), 

 he says that he would "no more breed to Shirley, 

 an American hound, than he would send Hanover 

 mares to a Hackney stallion." 



