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After the deaths of the senior Mr. Walker and Gen. Maupin, 

 these hounds were bred by Mr. Walker's sons, Mr. W. S. 

 Walker and Mr. E. H. Walker, and these gentlemen have 

 striven to keep the stock up to high vrater mark, and with great 

 success. While maintaining every good quality essential to a 

 high class red fox hound, they have bred especially to gameness, 

 grit and everlasting endurance. A quitter is almost unknown to 

 them, but, should one turn up, he never lives to perpetuate his 

 sin. These hounds are of all markings, black and tan, black, 

 white and tan, red and the various pies. This is the result of 

 breeding to the best hounds without regard to marking. 



About fourteen years ago the Walkers imported Striver and 

 two bitches from the Duke of Eglinton's pack in Scotland, 

 (these were English dogs though coming from Scotland), and 

 crossed them upon the Walker hound, producing the noted Big 

 Strive, Pearl Strive, and many other splendid hounds. They are 

 now breeding back to the old blood again, finding they had too 

 much English blood for first-class nose and tongue. The famous 

 winnings of E. H. W^alker's Ailsie at the Brunswick Foxliound 

 Club's trials in 1903, proved the present breeding of the strain to 

 be equal to anything ever produced by the famous fox-hunting 

 family. 



THE WHITLOCK STRAIN. 



The "Whitlock Shaggy Foxhounds" were brought to Kentucky 

 from Maryland by Mr. Ben Robertson of Mt. Sterling, Ky. Mr. 

 Robertson was a horse dealer, and each year brought and drove 

 a lot of horses through Maryland to Baltimore. On the road he 

 would stop at the home of a gentleman who owned a large pack 

 of foxliounds, that he considered better than his dogs at home in 

 Kentucky, and on each trip would bring fresh blood for his 

 pack. His friend's dogs were kept in a large lot with boards set 

 perpendicular, ten feet high, and there was only one dog out of a 

 large number in this kennel that ever got out over the top of this 

 fence, and caught the fox that a pack of his neighbor's dogs were 

 running. He had published in one of the Maryland papers a 

 challenge offering to wager five hundred dollars that this dog 

 could catch or hole any red fox in Maryland in one hour, or beat 

 any dog in Maryland, for the same amount. There were no 

 takers. Mr. Robertson brought a son of the above dog home and 



