expressions. His contention is that, as certain breeder-huckster- 

 judges did their best to ruin the Cumberland Runners in earlier 

 years, he will give them no chance to do this with the new type 

 before it is well established. This is the reason he gives for not 

 revealing the definite source of his new stock. 



It becomes simply a question as to whom to believe. Every 

 prominent writer in England whom I was able to consult re- 

 ferred me to Mr. Walton as knowing more about origin and value 

 of Runners than any other man in England. In addition to this,^ 

 he has been the "Honorable Secretary" to the British Runner 

 Club for a long term of years consecutively. This, it seems to 

 me, ought to establish his standing with the general public. 



Much of India consists of mountain fastness and wild Jun- 

 gle. While I am not concerned in proving that the Runners came 

 direct from India to England (though Mr. Walton has said it is 

 proved that the first ones came in an India ship) it is 

 certainly possible that Runners could exist in a wild or partially- 

 wild state in forgotten or never-known localities, and utterly un- 

 known to the "authorities." It would be far more easily possible 

 for travelers and agents on the lookout, to find the "from-Eng- 

 land" Runners said to have been introduced into India many 

 years ago, than it would be to find the "natives". For these last 

 might be in hiding in far-away fastness or jungle-swamps, or 

 untrodden desert. Thus it would be almost certain that interest- 

 ed American or other foreigners to India, who follow mostly the 

 beaten routes, would find and import home the "from-England" 

 kind; and they might, no doubt, firmly believe that they had the 

 real "Indian" Runners. Critics and writers in general seem to 

 have no conception that both domesticated and wild or "native" 

 Runners might be found in India, if only people knew where to 

 look. 



It is plain, however, that for people here to assert that no 

 native Runners exist in that distant and huge country, just be- 



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