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Show AMERICAN HOUNDS WANTED IN ENGLAND Boston, Mass., March 7. Harry W. Smith, master of the Grafton Hunt, has received the first pommission ever placed in this country for purchase pur-chase of American Wxhounds to be used by a European Hunt club. The commission comes from tho Pau Hunt of France and for five couples cou-ples of as nearly perfect bird hounds as Mr. Smith can secure. The Grafton master is known as ono. of the most enthusiastic advocates advo-cates of the Amori.can foxhound aa against the English type, and he declared de-clared that the dogs Jie would send to Prauce would all be purchased ia Rappahannock county, Virginia, where Mr. Smith has conducted extensive ex-tensive foxhound breeding operations for years, although his home is in Worcester, Mass. They will all be registered in the A. K. C. stud book, as well as that of the National Fox Hunters' association. The commission to Mr. Smith comes In an Interesting fashion. Last year he hunted his own hounds and horses hor-ses at Westmeath, Ireland', and on Uls Way home visited the Pau HUnt In France, donating six couples of his own hounds to use with the English hounds that, the Pau members were hunting exclusively. Tho order states that the American hounds have proven far more satisfactory. The Pau Hunt, one of the oldest of the French sporting clubs, had as its master James Gordon Bennett for a couple of years In the early eighties |