THE AMERICAN FOXHOUND B7 



gather the desired pack. We are now on the shady side of life 

 and wil soon have to bow to the inevitable. That our straxn of 

 dogs of which we feel a right to he proud, may be preserved we 

 ave'consented to give a brief history of them to he spor^sn^en 

 of America, believing that by great care m selecting, judicious 

 bretd ng ami constant hunting for the past thirty-five years, we 

 have ;"okuced a dog that can successfully compete with the red 



*1„ 1866 we opened up a correspondence 7*'> «e L F^ 

 Birdsong, of Thomaston, Georgia, and purchased of hmi that 

 year and in 1867 the following dogs, paying these prices: 



Chase and Bee (by Longstreet ) ^^^^Z 



Geokge .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 100^00 



^^^ 100.00 



Fannie 



Lee was presented to us. 



In 1868 we visited Mr. Birdsong and spent a week with 1 in 

 H was then in feeble health, in fact «--7«\,-*,f«„ 

 terrible disease, consumption, from which he died the 18 h of 

 August the following year. He was able take us on bn one 

 hunt, when we caught a red fox in forty-five -^'^^'^^ Z' ^t- 

 pected that the fox was not in condition to run, and held a post 

 mortem, hut found nothing wrong with hmi. 



Mr Birdsong then had in his kennel-we had him m the hunt 



_r dog that has been talked about a great deal in ate years 



..July ?• We also had in the pack three of his get, I think then 



juiy. vvea .'Madcan" "Lightfoot," and 



about three years old, i. e. Madcap, f,„,., ,„ i,jg 



"Echo." He also had three yearlmgs out of Echo by Ins 



celebrated dog, "Longstreet," i. e. "Delta," "Dnmas, and 



^™" By Pegging two days and paying five bundled dollars 



,*500 he let us have "Lightfoot" and "Delta." In addition to 



re'w': purchased of Colonel R. H. Ward, of Green «, 



Georgia "Forest," by "Boston," paying one hundred dollais, 



fnd "Emma" at the sime figures. "Rose," a full sister to Echo 



by July, and "Hampton," we,., loaned us. Rose, we returned 



after sl^ had whelped, but Hampton died in our kJnnel a few 



months after we received liim. 



In 86? we visited General G. W. Maupin of Madison county^ 

 Kentucky and was present at the great match race between Ben 

 "son, of Montgomery county and General Maupin^ Tins 

 meet took place at Oil Spring, in Clark county, and was much 



