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pretty frosty about that time and they worked 

 that trail about one hour south and west. We 

 followed their music and they barked treed. We 

 sliot him out. That makes eleven 'coon and 

 one killed in the field that we could not find. 

 Now there may be some of the trappers that 

 will think I have added a few 'coon to this hunt, 

 but I have not. I have given you this 'coon hunt 

 as near as it happened as I can remember, but 

 we had seven as good 'coon dogs as you generally 

 run across. I do not say seven of the best dogs 

 ever went into the woods or the best in the 

 United States, but they were 'coon dogs and 

 fast ones. 



It seems that about every man that has a 

 'coon dog or dogs and they tree a few 'coons, gets 

 it into his head that nobody has a dog quite as 

 good as his. I have one pair of hounds from a 

 Williams bitch and a dog owned by ^Ir. Wil- 

 liams — ^ Hodo is his name — but he is a pure 

 Trigg dog. His pedigree runs back over forty 

 years. One of Haiden C. Trigg's dogs, Trigg, 

 is the most successful hound breeder in the 

 United States today. He started on the old 

 original American fox hound, these long eared 

 fellows Avith a deep mellow voice, called by some 

 nigger cliasers, as tliey used them in tlie south 

 for tliat purpose, and some dealers are selling 

 the old American Fox Hound today for Ameri- 



