TRAINING THE HUNTING DOG. 47 



Before closing, I will say something more 

 with regard to breeding : — We often see where 

 someone has pure bred Walker, Williams, Red- 

 bone or Buckfield Blues. Now to my understand- 

 ing, these are strains of dogs, bred by southern 

 fox hunters, 50 or 75 years ago, and to keep them 

 pure, there must have been a lot of inbreeding, a 

 thing I do not approve of. Now why would it 

 not have been better for Mr. Walker to have se- 

 lected one of his very best bitches and bred her to 

 one of Mr. Williams' best dogs, then called the 

 pups the "American Fox Hounds" — as grand a 

 dog as ever put his nose to a trail? 



