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I crossed the one I owned on an English and several BncMeld 

 bitches, and the result in every instance was most satisfactoi-y, 

 yielding progeny with all the good points of the sire and ad- 

 ditional toughness, with enduring capacity or a high rute of 

 speed The noted Byron-Buckfield field trial winner ,Tim 

 Blaine, is a shining example of this cross, he being by the Byron 

 hound Bugle out of the Buckfleld bitch Pert. 



A Hunting Remembrance of "Bugle," by Dr. Heffenger. 



The early development of the Byron hound was brilliantly 

 shown to me by Bugle when only seven months old. I, hunt- 

 ing with an old New England foxhound, on a cold day m 

 January, took the pup along to give him his first lesson. The 

 old hound was working up a cold trail some distance oA-T'"^" 

 the pup, while hunting a tliick cover in my sight, ™ddenly 

 threw up his head, snuffed a couple of times, and rushed mto 

 the cover. Immediately he began tin-owing his tongue ma most 

 energetic manner, and went off at a tearing gait straight away 

 from me. There was just enough snow for good hunting and 

 wlien I reached the point where the pup started, I found a fresh 

 fox track in the snow, with a place hollowed under a pme tree 

 where brother reynard had been ruthlessly aroused f-^om his 

 morning's nap by the infant Bugle. The pup ran fast, and was 

 soon out of hearing; and it was not till after an l-nr hard 

 tramp that I came upon him in a swamp, still drivmg the fox 

 furiouslv. The old hound at this time joined m the chase, but 

 was always a long distance behind the youngster. At one time 1 

 Taw Hie fox in a leld, with the pup nipping at his hmd quarters, 

 but as soon as cover was reached he slipped away from him. 

 The chase was in hearing after this most of the time till 8pm 

 when I broke through the ice in crossing a large brook, getting 

 my rubber boots full of ice-water, and consequently had to go 

 home. The old hound turned up that night, but *« P»P ^id not^ 

 a^d was fomid the next day at a farm-house eight miles from 

 home, where he had tied up at dusk the night before JHus wa 

 certainly a phenomenal performance for a seven '^"'jths PJip, for 

 he made a long distance body-scent strike, and P^f ^^'^Jl^/^";^ 

 his game the entire day, as the old hound was f ™y« ^ l°°f 

 distfnee behind after he joined in the '-nt. Bugle was bred^y 

 Rhodes Bros., of Pioneer, Pa., and his sire. Drive, had a record 



