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their increased form by heredity, are the 
points that should have been investigated. 
Such an investigation, to amount to any¬ 
thing, would have to cover an immense 
number of instances. 
L OOKED at in a general way, apart 
from the high science of the biolo¬ 
gists, it would seem as if the efforts 
of the Florida cattlemen in feeling their 
way to the sort of dog they wanted, awak¬ 
ened certain old qualities of the mighty 
past, associated with a certain color. The 
question also arises, whether the dogs they 
called curs were not largely of hound 
blood. In a wilderness country, where 
hounds had been used for a hundred years 
or more, so-called curs one would suppose 
would naturally be strongly infused with 
hound. I am inclined to think that many 
of the cattle dogs have more hound blood 
in them than their owners suppose. Not a 
few of them will slow-trail a deer, and 
show other evidences of strong scenting 
and hunting power. Some of them how¬ 
ever cannot hunt, and their owners have 
to keep a hound for hunting. 
I tried last winter to get snap shot pho¬ 
tographs of catch dogs and walked or rode 
a horse many miles in these efforts, quail 
hunting on the way with Saxon to keep 
the house boat supplied with game. I met 
with many disappointments. Some fine 
dogs that I had known were dead and 
some photographs turned out badly, be¬ 
cause I could not get the films developed 
soon enough. The excellent stock of dogs 
that had belonged to Elijah Godwin in his 
lifetime I found was no more. The old 
bitch that had produced such good puppies 
had been killed by a rattler—and one of 
her recent offspring that had been kept 
was killed last summer by a stroke of light¬ 
ning—which at the same time killed two 
men and their horses. Men, dogs and 
horses were found lying dead together be¬ 
neath a tree; one of the men was Mr. 
Godwin’s grandson. 
In one of these excursions I came across 
a curious piece of backwoods surgery. It 
is a digression from the dogs, but shows 
the environment in which they live. The 
man I visited had the day before trod on 
a rusty nail, which went through his foot. 
In the city he would have been hurried to 
the hospital in great alarm. But many 
miles from doctors and accustomed to rely 
on himself, he made light of it. He ham¬ 
mered out a lead bullet thin, made a small 
hole in the center of it and bandaged this 
on the bottom of the foot, with the hole 
opposite the orifice of the wound. The 
top of the foot he kept bathed in turpen¬ 
tine. The lead, he said, was a great thing 
to draw the rust poison from the wound; 
and he was hobbling about the place at¬ 
tending to odd jobs and regretting that he 
could not ride out in the pine woods with 
me. If the proof of good surgery is the 
result, his method has passed muster; for 
his foot healed without difficulty. The 
pine woods air was the real surgeon, I 
judge. 
The picture of Ben represents a very - 
promising young catch dog; only a year 
old. He has already held several cattle. 
He has some white coloring across his _ 
shoulders, which I do not like; but some 
of them have it. 
I saw a catch dog called Jake who is 
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