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black covering half his body, brindle ears, big brush to his tail, 

 a^d an eye as big as a deer's; he weighed sixty-five pounds, liad 

 a strong back, and good bone. Besides buying other hounds from 

 Mr. Winters, I also purchased dogs from Messrs. J. T. Hardey, 

 G. W. Linthicum, and Nimrod Gosnell, of Howard county, Md. 

 I bought twenty-three of these dogs from Maryland. 



I had several letters from Mr. Gosnell. He also sent me his 

 picture, and from which he appeared to be then well advanced 

 in years. I also had several letters from Mr. Robertson in regard 

 to these dogs, and his pack, which were of the same blood as my 

 dogs. 



I have handled this breed of hounds for several years, and my 

 opinion is that they are the best red fox dogs in the United 

 States. 



May this history I have given you be perpetuated, and this 

 breed of hounds live until the end of time. 



HISTORY OF THE JULY FOXHOUND. 

 By A. C. Heffenger, M. D. 



If there is a patent of nobility for the hound world, then that 

 patent belongs to the famous Irish or July foxliounds. Possibly 

 no foxhounds in America can show a more ancient, unbroken 

 and aristocratic lineage than these phenomenal descendants of 

 Erin's green isle. In looking over my Kennel Stud Book I find 

 those in New England strain back through the purest Irish blood 

 for fourteen generations to the original emigrant Irish hounds. 

 Mountain and Muse, imported into Maryland by Mr. Bolton 

 Jackson in 1812, and passing from him through Col. Sterrett 

 Ridgely to Mr. Charles Carroll, Jr., the descendant of the 

 famous signer of the Declaration of Independence, to be bred at 

 liis country-seat, Homewood. These hounds were presented in 

 large numbers to Virginia sportsmen, and especially to Robbin 

 Pollard and Capt. Littlepage of King William county, and Mr. 

 Bromley and Gen. Chamberlayne of New Kent county. 



Going back through these fourteen generations, their progeni- 

 tors include such grand hounds as Hamp, Nero Childs, Light- 

 foot, Longstreet, Obie, July, Hodo, Ringgold, Old Captain and 

 Traveller, the last a Mountain-Muse pup. 



Mr. George J. Garrett of Green Spring Valley, Md., has the 



