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they come from highly trained stock, that is that 

 their sire and dam and grand sire and grand 

 dam were all trained bj persons who thoroughly 

 understood the way of breeding and rearing as 

 well as the age and proper way of training. A 

 hound coming from such selected stock will 

 learn and pick up in a day what will take others 

 months and probabl,y a whole season to learn. 

 I neyer kept a hound wliich after haying shown 

 him the game and also blooded him once or twice 

 would not at once start to hunt because I con- 

 sider that tlie sooner a sportsman will shoot 

 such dogs the better. 



There are plenty of fox dogs that are good 

 coon dogs, and a great many coon dogs will run 

 a fox to a finish, but the fox and coon dogs are 

 two yery different dogs. There is also a greater 

 difference in the opinions of hunters, in regard 

 to the coon dog than in any other dogs. 



Some want the full blooded hound, and 

 some a cross with a foxhound ; liere they differ 

 again as to what dog to cross with ; others want 

 no hound blood at all, but a shepherd ; one wants 

 a collie and another just a dog. Then here is a 

 hunter who insists on a silent dog; and the next 

 one says the silent trailer doesn't camp with him. 



Now as I am not looking for trouble, I will 

 a^ee with all of you. Where coons are plenti- 



