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every time than a slow one will. I have had both 

 slow and fast and have hunted 'coons about 23 

 years. Am now a man 38 years old, and if I 

 don't know what a hound is I sure never will. 



I don't claim to know it all, for a man never 

 gets too old to learn. He could learn something 

 every day if he lived a thousand years, or for 

 all time to come. There is no dog that will work 

 a cold trail out like a good hound. He will work 

 out a trail and tree a 'coon when a cur dog 

 would pass right over the trail and pay no at- 

 tention to it whatever. It must be the brothers 

 that like the still trailers that never had a good 

 'coon hound, for I have never seen good 'coon 

 dogs but I have seen the best ones wrapped up 

 in a fox hound hide. 



I have a black and tan hound that will fight 

 for me at any time. I can't scuffle with any one 

 outside of my own family for he will bite them 

 just as quick as he can get close enough to them. 

 I had to give him several hard whippings to 

 make him quit rabbits. Now they don't bother 

 him any when he is looking for 'coon with me 

 at night. His father was the hardest dog to 

 break off of rabbits that I ever broke, but when 

 he was three years old he would not notice a rab- 

 bit at night but would trail them in the day 

 time. He turned out to be a very valuable hound. 

 He would retrieve as good as a retriever on 



