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gained well merited fame in the field trials of the Brunswick 

 Foxlionnd Club. Two well known hunters of Massachusetts, 

 Mr R D Perry and Mr. E. J. Bates, purchased two slightly 

 different types of the strain. Mr. Perry's couple were black 

 white and tan, and out of Callie Gates, the most famous bitch of 

 the strain, and winner of first honors in the Inter-State Fox- 

 liunters' Club trials at Waverly, Miss., Dec. 2, 1889. These 

 hounds were mcily built, handsome and catchy m appearance, 

 and proved fast, wide hunters and drivers. They were rather 

 light in bone and coat for our our climate, and wmter huntmg 

 was very punishing to them. Mr. Bates had a couple of red 

 hounds, larger and coarser than Mr. Perry, and one, "Leads 

 All," proved himself a first-class working hound for any 

 climate. They all had good noses, and musical tongue, and 

 crossed on the New England foxliound, slower and tougher, pro- 

 duced splendid stock for any country. I crossed Joe Forester, 

 first winner of the American Field Cup in the B. F. C. trials, on 

 Annie Dance, a Callie Gates bitch, and every one of the progeny 

 proved first-class foxliounds; one. Resolution, is the best hound 

 I own, and the best I ever saw save his sire Joe Forester. 



The origin of the strain I can best give by quoting from a 

 letter written me by Col. J. W. Lewis, Paris, Tennessee, the 

 present owner of the pack. "The original dogs were brought 

 from Virginia by my father, in 1835; he called them the "briar- 

 patch" dog. They were white, black and tan, and blue speckled 

 in color. Father was a man of affairs in those days, and a great 

 sportsman that wanted tlie best. He met here, as he told me, 

 other men of the same ambition. Soon quite a rivalry sprung 

 up between them, when each began to buy and improve his 

 dogs Mr. John Fuqua, a negro speculator, imported from 

 England some time in the fifties, an English dog that was crossed 

 on father's best bitch. A few years later, the same man, Fuqua, 

 got another dog from Georgia, that was red and white spotted. 

 They crossed tliis dog in with the other cross. Some time m the 

 sixties, another wealthy man and speculator, brought a white 

 and black spotted dog from Maryland, and crossed him on the 

 best bitch they had. This was the first of my recollection of the 

 dogs of my father. Again a gentleman traveling through this 

 country in fine style, going to Reelfoot Lake on a hunt, gave me 

 a bitch that he said was the best bred foxhound in North 

 Carolina, and we bred to her. I then took charge of the dogs 



