52 THE AMERICAN FOXHOUND 



named him. Eagle. Although he (Eagle) had a broken leg (done 

 when quite young) he was faster than any of Mr. Robertson's 

 dogs. 



In 1868 I was invited to join a party going to the mountains in 

 Kentucky to hunt deer and foxes. After the hunt I stopped with 

 Col. Pat Cork, who kept the Robertson dogs, and he gave me a 

 red bitch named Patti, by Eagle, out of one of his best bitches. 

 One year previous to this Col. Cork sent me an old bitch by 

 Robertson's Tickler, with four puppies by Stag, son of one of 

 Robertson's former importations. One of the puppies was red, 

 like his sire, and I named him Stag Jr. I bred Patti to Stag Jr., 

 and from this mating got Gamester, Pool, Dean, and Stella. The 

 two latter I gave to Mr. Given of Indiana, near Sparta. He told 

 me they were the champions of his part of the state. Gamester, 

 the first named Stag and Patti puppy, was the best fox dog I ever 

 raised or saw. He ran at the head of my pack, and I never saw 

 him fail to catch a fox he got sight of. Gamester was a very 

 prepotent dog. Every bitch he was bred to produced runners. I 

 bred these dogs for eighteen years with only one out-cross. That 

 was the dog Wild Irishman. I got him from Col. Bob Stoner, 

 and he was related to Robertson's dogs. E. H. Howard. 



In 1879 Mr. Howard was presented with another pair of 

 puppies from Gen. Dick Williams that he claimed were superior 

 to the red ones. They were also of the Robertson family of dogs 

 and came from Maryland. The bitch I lost by distemper. The 

 dog I saved and named him Dick Williams. Dick was out of 

 Blanch, by Robbin, he was out of Fury, by Whitey, a Maryland 

 dog. 



I then bred Patti Whitlock (a red bitch by Gamester) to Dick. 

 By this mating I got Clara I, the greatest dog I ever raised or 

 owned. She lived to be seven years old, and no man that knew 

 her questioned her ability to go to the front in any company, 

 carry the track, and stay there. From her I got Clara II, who 

 had probably a greater reputation from the fact that she was a 

 bench winner. She was the winner of a good many first prizes. 

 At Lexington, Ky., at the the largest show of foxhounds ever 

 held in the U. S., she won first in class, first as a brace with The 

 Bard, and first for the best bitch in the show. Upon the advice 

 of Col. Howard I bred Clara II to her litter brother and got 

 Pansy. She was game but not fast. From her I got two litters, 



