Friend Fountain, Your letter received in regards to Top. I did not have anything to do with the Top breeding. He was a good, tough, fast dog, but he went back to a bitch named Smut, she did not have any breeding, at least no one was ever able to get it. Top also had one cross of A.J. Hill’s Ringwood, a dog Mr. Garrett imported from England. He got twelve of those dogs, only one of them was any good and that was Ringwood and he was tough and slow. Top also had three crosses of Jim Hogg’s Dan; Dan’s dam was a Hudspeth bitch. There is no need to bring up the mistakes of some of our older breeders. If you all have a good bitch, is bred right and has got good feet, breed her to Dr. J.H. Nicholson, Madison, Ga. dog that he calls Doctor Belcher, he is the best bred dog that I know of. Your friend, W.A. Hough