Essay: Jack Bentley on Brooke foxhounds, undated

I reading this very interesting number of "The Red Ranger I came across an article by Mr George [J?] Garrit which is so far from the truth & has so many [grossley?] misleading statements I cannot refrain from answering him. He twice in his article refers to me as the [illegible] breeder of the Brooke strain, which puts me in mind of a story of an old [Darkey?] in Whashington who was backed up against a fence by a fellow who called him all the hard names in the [Calendar?], when he paused for breath the old fellow said. Well is you through. Yes. ", well every thing you calls me you is". Mr Garriii wrote

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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) & Boston (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 proved it utterly refused to refund the big price they had paid for the dogs. In one case for instance, He sold to my Friend

4 Mr George a Mansfield of South [illegible?] Oaklahoma, three hounds which he claimed were his stock & from the way they acted I never had any doubt that statement was entirely correct. Mr. Mansfield was severly bitten by one of them when he 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 neither one ran a fool after a fox jumped right in [hearing?] & Ford. the dog Mr Garritt said was the best one laid down & allowed the pack to kill a fox in the same build & never got up to go to them

Mr. Garritt wrote to Mr Mansfield to breed Ford to Echo a splended [illegible?] dark gray with ash tan legs & blaize face I had sent him, who Mr. Mansfield wrote an article of in the Sports news, saying she was the fastest & best hound he had ever bought

5 If ever Garritts 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. Grritts statement that Mose was a discorded hand of the date Mr. John Hardey⁵ and that Beulah was a hand picked up by Admond Ianus Irult in Virginia is false in every particular. Mise was an utno Brooke hound bred & raised by the late Jame E. Tyson at his coming home near Elicotts City. He was out of Belle a bitch presented to Mr Tyson by another fox hound man Mr Pole Welsh of Howard Co Md. who (Mr Welsh) informed Mr Tyson had never given to him by Nimrod Bosnell. Mose was sired by