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Blaine, Toniey, Peggy, etc., as the seventh. Among these gener- 

 ations have been many grand hounds not previously mentioned, 

 such as Smut, Dick and Dime (two brothers) and Red Tom. 

 The Maine fox-hunters, thougli obtaining liigh class foxliounds 

 from all over the country for trial, are still loyal to the 

 Buckfields, and declare tliem to be superior for their kind of 

 hunting to all other strains so far tested. 



THE GOODMAN FOXHOUNDS. 

 W. C. Goodman in "Shooting and Fishing.** 



The question has often been asked how these hounds came by 

 their name. The honor of naming them belongs to Dr. W. E. 

 Wyatt, Cyrena, Mo., and the history of the strain and the name 

 is as follows: Mr. Colcord and I gave some pups to Capt. R. L. 

 Bowles, Palmyra, Mo., and these hounds made quite a repu- 

 tation for themselves as red fox foxliounds. Dr. J. W. Norris 

 hunted often with the Bowles hounds, but he and the Captain 

 had a misunderstanding regarding the hounds and the Doctor 

 wrote to Kentucky for some. I answered his letter, but had 

 never met him, and in in 1886 Dr. Norris got his first Kentucky 

 or Goodman hounds. I traded him Trinket I. for a setter dog ; 

 then I bought Ball for him, and later he got Glide, Alice, 

 Fiddler H., Little Flirt, and other hounds and puppies from me. 

 In that way Dr. Norris came by them. Then I let Mr. R. H. 

 Pooler, Serena, 111., have Cull and Trinket II.; later he got 

 Colonel, Bailey, Kitsey and several more, in all about a dozen, 

 and these hounds made as great a reputation in Illinois as red 

 fox hounds as the others had done in Missouri. 



Dr. Wyatt heard of them and wrote to me for some hounds. 

 I sent them to him, and, after they had been thoroughly tested, 

 he wrote requesting the liberty of using my name in a letter he 

 intended to write to the American Field. I gave my consent 

 and in the letter he called them the Goodman hounds. I had no 

 idea that he was going to use my name in that way, and I was 

 not after that kind of notoriety. 



Mr. B. F. Robertson lived in Montgomery county, and his 

 hounds were called the Robertson, the Irish, or the Maryland 

 hounds; Gen. Maupin lived in Madison county, and his hounds 

 were called the Madison County hounds, while ours were known 



