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I reading this very interesting member of "The Red Ranger I came across an article by Mr George O Garret which is so far from this ]illegible?] & has so many
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a most misleading article several years ago in which he states that his dogs Glider & Boston, which Mr John Hardey had in his pack had beaten all the dogs and packs in this section, which I found by the testimony of R.O Lea, Mr. Garritts great [four?], & Mr Nicholas Crawford the Blind fox hunter & the most certain authority of the relative speed of Foxhounds in this County or Howard County & others who will testify that his dogs Did not beat any body and are worthy sons of (I suppose) their grandsires, for the first time I ever heard of Mr Garritt, Mr Hardey told me he would show me a
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litter from a [wild?] man in Georgia who had written him to send him the wildest skirters & cutters you have" and his dogs are exactly (the ones I have seen of their character) & [?] (Glider was killed when about two years old) after he was five years old never ran a race though that I ever heard of & would come out & set about to try to put in right at the fox spoiling all the races he was in. Now a few facts about commercialism. Mr Garritt differs from me in just one respect - as concerns commercialism. He does not [scruple?] to sell[ perfectly wothless dogs to my friends & when they found it utterly refused to refund the big price they had paid for the dogs. In one case for instance, He sold to my Friend
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4 Mr George a Mansfield of South [illegible?] Oaklahoma, thru hands which he claimed were his strick [illegible?] way they acted I never had any doubt that statement was entirely correct. Mr. Mansfield was severly[illegible?] by one of them where we tried to take him out of the box & he never saw him again. He kept the other two until they were throroghly acquanted & took them out with his pack & they neirther our [ran] a fott after a fox umped right in hearing & Ford. the day Mr Gamtt said was the best one said dawn & allowed the pack to kill a fox iin the same field & never got up to go to their Mr. Gamll wrote to Mr Mansfield to breed Ford to Echo a splended [illegible?] dark gray with as tan legs & beige face I had sent him, who Mr. Mansfield wrote an article of [?] the Sports news, saying she was the fastest & best heard he had ever bought
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5 If ever Samels could have heard our Mansfield state upon what condition he would allow Ford to be best to Echo he would have been edified indeed. Mr. Gamiis statement that Mose was a discorded hand of the date Mr. John Handey5 and that Beulah was a hand picked up by Admond I anus I rult in Virginia is false in every particular. Mise was an utno Brooke found bred & raised by the date Jame E. Tyson at his coming home near Elicotts City. He was out of Belle a bitch [prseut?] to in Tyson by another fox hound man Mf Pole Welsh of Haward Co Md. who (Mr Welch) informed Mr Tyson had never given to him by Nimrod Bosnell. Mose was sined by