934 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
I be successful in a scheme I have long meditated, and am 
now about to put into execution, upon procuring the ani- 
mals necessary for originating the cross I contemplate, 
I shall, before many years, have it in my power to supply 
all my friends, and all such true sportsmen as shall care to 
possess them, with a fine type of this noblest cross of the 
whole dog race. 
My method is to put a magnificent jet black St. John’s 
Newfoundland dog, now in my possession, to an equally fine 
jet black English greyhound bitch; to cross the female 
progeny of these parents with the large black and tan 
foxhound, and the female pups of these, in the second 
generation, again with the smooth greyhounds. The male 
pups of the first cross I shall put to smooth greyhound 
bitches, and the pups of these to foxhounds male or female, 
as the case may require. 
I am convinced that by this method I shall procure 
size, rough hair, scent, courage, and intelligence, equal to 
that of any conceivable dog, natural or artificial; and 
four or five years will prove my success or failure. 
The first specimen of this breed of dogs I have seen 
in this country, was a dark brindled gray wire-haired dog, 
of which I got a sight in Philadelphia in the year 1850, 
the property of a British officer on his way to California. 
He stood above 36 inches in height. There are, or recently 
were, a brace of very fine dogs in New York, in the pos- 
session of Mr. Moore the dog fancier, who can be heard 
of at the Spirit of the Times. They were valued at $500, 
and were cheap at that. 
