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Strive, outpointed the Cook liounds in every way save head and 

 by co;tinuous winning soon ran them off the crcmt. Pearl 

 sirive was the cleanest and raciest foxhound I have ever seen, 

 though ha« English. Next to her, the Cook ^td., Modest G.^^ 

 filled my eye. Modest Girl liad the better head, but Pearl Strive 

 scored over her generally in body, legs and feet. 

 TspL of having been displaced upon the bench, however, i 

 Mr. Cook's hounds had been able to stand the P™'*-;"' °* 

 hard running under rough conditions, which he claimed hey 

 co^wl, they would have been just as popular with practical 

 fox-hunters to-day as they were fifteen years ago^ 



Many specimens came to New England, and most of «>em 

 were large and showy in appearance, dog hounds bemg f.om 

 Twenty-three to twenty-six inches, and bitches from twenty to 

 twenty-three inches. Most of them were conventional black 

 white and tans, though some were black and tan, -^ afew b - 

 mottled, black and tan. The three most notable representatives 

 Tthe strain seen at the field trials of the Brunswick Fo^iound 

 riuh were A M Gerry's Drive, A. McDonald's Queen, and E. 

 TolIeT's Modest Girl. Drive won more in ^eld trials. Queen 

 was probably the best all-round worker, and Modest Grl was 

 the best show hound. Queen was bred to the celebrated Joe 

 Forester, and it happened that a couple of years af^rward^ at 

 the show of the New England Kennel Club, Boston, Mass^, 1890, 

 Joe Forester won first in open dogs. Modest Girl m open bitches^ 

 and Flora Temple and MoUie T., (Joe Forester-Queen) won 

 Lcond and third to Modest Girl. After this M- «ook was very 

 anxious to see Joe Forester, and breed to him, but .11 health and 

 dLh put an end to his ambitions. Had he lived to -ke pro^x 

 crosses on Joe Forester, a foxhound of great substance and ever 

 asting speed and endurance, his strain would '-ve obtained jut 

 the points needed, and would have held its popularity to-^y the 

 same as in the eighties. As previously mentioned I considered 

 Sodest Girl the best physical specimen of the strain ever saw 

 Symmetrical, strong, clean and racy from head to ^tern witii 

 the richest black, white and tan markings, f'^^/J ^""f.'f 

 beauty, fair to look upon, and the ''^t»-l "^f *° /°?^f ^^f i 

 an equally handsome hound, my property at that time and 

 haveTways regretted that I did not buy the "Girl" and make 



*' Mroook's favorites were Champion Brave and Whoopey. 



