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until the third morning, when Mr. Griffee went to a den where 

 his hounds had treed a fox and saw tlie lost Logan standing 

 there, half starved and nervous, with a steel trap fastened to the 

 toes of one of his front feet. The jaws of the merciless machine 

 had cut the flesh to the bone. For three days Logan had been 

 chained to a post in the field, but the music of his running mates 

 made him howl. His outcry attracted the attention of a farmer, 

 who was willing to become a friend in need, but Logan, not 

 recognizing him as such, showed fight, and in scrambling 

 around broke the chain and ran off, carrying the trap with him. 

 It was two months before Logan could put that foot to the 

 ground and it looked at one time as if he would lose the use of 

 two of his toe nails. 



Becoming interested in Mr. Garrett's dogs Mr. Perkins, of 

 Boston, tried to get a cross on a good stallion hound. He was 

 desirous of improving the nose and endurance of his dogs. 

 Logan was sent to him, recommended as a good pack hound, 

 with gameness and stamina, but not as an extra individual. At 

 the time, however, Mr. Garrett predicted that Logan would win 

 on endurance at the Brunswick Fur Club trials under favorable 

 conditions. Nevertheless, Mr. Garrett was very much surprised 

 when he learned that Logan had been so successful at Barre, es- 

 pecially when competing with many of the leading hounds of 

 the land. 



There are some breeders who do not like the Sugar Loaf 

 hound. Recently I wrote a story for the Sportsmen's Review, 

 giving a brief history of the Sugar Loaf strain, and within a few 

 days after the article appeared I received a letter from a well- 

 known hunter whose name I shall not give here, who had this to 

 say: "I have just finished reading your interesting story of 

 Garrett's dogs. I wrote a piece for publication about the Sugar 

 Loaf but after reading your praise of them I backed down, as I 

 did not wish to mar any laudation of them. I have two out of 

 B — and S — , sired by this Bill Reid and Bullet. Speed is the 

 same that you spoke of. I had a pair of half breed, July and 

 Sugar Loaf, sired by Bill Reid, and dam, a pure July bitch. This 

 strain of dogs has hurt my sales more than you could imagine." 



This hunter says that the Sugar Loaf cross on his Julys, 

 which he has never found lacking, proved a failure. He claims 

 that they quit. 



A letter from another sportsman of good standing has a word 



