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of praise for the brindle dog. Among other things he said: "I 

 have read your piece in regard to the Sugar Loaf hound, and 

 was very much pleased as I have at this time five of the brindle 

 dogs. I have ovs^ned the brindle hounds for thirty years, and 

 they have been in in my neighborhood since 1858, and I don't 

 believe that their equal for endurance is to be found. I don't 

 think that they can be outrun. I have run with Georgia, 

 Kentucky and Virginia dogs, and never was beaten. I could tell 

 you of some instances of their endurance that would surprise 

 you ; and I can prove what I tell you. I owned a brindle bitch 

 once that went in a chase after a deer, and after four hour's 

 hard running caught the deer, and at the close of the race gave 

 birth to one puppy, and went home and had four more. I took 

 the puppy home and raised it. What do you think of that for 

 the brindles? I have run them for two weeks on camp hunts 

 and caught seven deer in one week (without shooting a one of 

 them); at the close of the hunt they were as game as at the 

 start. On the third of December I jumped a red fox and caught 

 him in one hour. I have caught three red foxes within the last 

 month, and I don't believe any fox can outrun them in this open 

 country, or stand ahead of them over two hours." 



Here I shall rest the history of the Sugar Loaf hound. His 

 color is a little off, but he seems to be a pretty tough dog in the 

 field after deer and foxes. 



THE TRIGG STRAIN. 

 From '*The American Foxhound," by H. C. Trigg. 



From 1845 to 1860 we o\NTied a pack of those grand old long- 

 eared, rat-tail, deep-toned, black-and-tan Virginia foxhounds. 

 In those happy, by-gone days we could on a moonlight niglit ride 

 to the covert side, throw our leg over the pommel of our saddle 

 and listen for hours to the most magnificent music made by the 

 ever-to-be-remembered dogs. 



But, alas, everything must have an end. In 1860 the red fox 

 first made his advent into our section, and the days of these dogs 

 wer ended. The coming of the red fox made a great change in 

 the chase. The most important thing was to get a dog tliat 

 could successfully walk with him. With us it required years of 

 work, patience, considerable expense, and a world of trouble to 



