PREFACE. The absence of a book on the American Foxhound, devoted to the notable strains in all parts of the country, and the widespread and increasing interest and popularity of the breed, has induced the publisher, with the generous aid of some of our best known foxhound men, to compile and place a work at the disposal of the hunting world embodying not only the ideas of invidual hunting men, but concrete facts, the consensus of opinion of the entire American field. The breeding and hunting of foxhounds by the sportsmen of America dates from the earliest settlement of the continent, but it has been done individually, resulting in the development of many excellent strains peculiarly adapted to the section of the country hulited, and histories of these strains from able pens have been secured. The work, however, of harmonizing then and typifying and standardizing an ideal foxhound properly qualified for the varying needs of the country at large was left to the National Foxhunters...

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