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can Blood Hounds. Tlie only genuine blood 

 hound we have is the English. See what the 

 Trigg dog is today, short ears or much shorter 

 than the dog Mr. Trigg started to improve on, 

 with narrow muzzle, and stands up well with 

 good feet and built on speedy lines, a red fox dog, 

 and when he started on there were few of them 

 that could hole a red fox inside of eight hours, 

 and the Trigg dog of today will hole a red fox in 

 a comparatively short time. Of course the fox 

 they are running and the kind of country they 

 have to run in, have a great deal to do with it. I 

 run fox m^^self sometimes, or my hounds do 

 rather. 



Now I see some of the hunters like a still 

 trailer, but I want to hear my dogs work and 

 I want to know which way thej are going, and 

 when they begin to get away I can follow and 

 keep in hearing of my dogs. I can tell by their 

 baying just about what they are doing, if the 

 trail is cold or warm, and can tell which way 

 they are going. I wouldn't give a cent to hunt 

 with dogs that couldn't make a little music when 

 on the trail. 



I see some of the brothers think nothing but 

 a still trailer catches his 'coon on the ground. 

 If you have fast trailers they will catch 'coon on 

 the ground if they tongue every other jump. My 

 dogs are all good tonguers and I often have 



