234: MANUAL FOB YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 



I be successful in a scheme I have long meditated, and am 

 now about to put into execution, upon procuring the ani- 

 mals necessary for originating the cross I contemplate, 

 I shall, before many years, have it in my power to supply 

 all my friends, and all such true sportsmen as shall care to 

 possess them, with a fine type of this noblest cross of the 

 whole dog race. 



My method is to put a magnificent jet black St. John's 

 Newfoundland dog, now in my possession, to an equally fine 

 jet black English greyhound bitch ; to cross the female 

 progeny of these parents with the large black and tan 

 foxhound, and the female pups of these, in the second 

 generation, again with the smooth greyhounds. The male 

 pups of the first cross I shall put to smooth greyhound 

 bitches, and the pups of these to foxhounds male or female, 

 as the case may require. 



I am convinced that by this method I shall procure 

 size, rough hair, scent, courage, and intelligence, equal to 

 that of any conceivable dog, natural or artificial ; and 

 four or five years will prove my success or failure. 



The first specimen of this breed of dogs I have seen 

 in this country, was a dark brindled gray wire-haired dog, 

 of which I got a sight in Philadelphia in the year 1850, 

 the property of a British officer on his way to California. 

 He stood above 36 inches in height. There are, or recently 

 were, a brace of very fine dogs in New York, in the pos- 

 session of Mr. Moore the dog fancier, who can be heard 

 of at the Spirit of the Times. They were valued at $500, 

 and were cheap at that. 



