The Fastest Hound Dog in the State of Maine - read by Frederick T. McGill, Jr. - 09/02/2001
Channel: Matthew Baya
Date: 2017-09-16

Read by Fred McGill from the book 'The Fastest Hound Dog in the State of Maine' written by John Gould. http://amzn.to/2yfJP7Z . Fred would read this book at almost every conference, every summer for many of the 75 years he summered on Star Island. 

This video was recorded on Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH on 9/2/2001. The video isn't that great since Fred was standing right by a bright window in the Pink Parlor. There were others in the room as he was reading and you'll hear their laughter and occasional cough but for the most part it's pretty clear. I am certain there are better recordings of him doing this, but as far as I know none of them are on youtube or elsewhere so I thought I'd share this.

I included the cover of the book at the beginning and part of John Gould's LP cover at the end that explains what a 'Hotbox' is on a train.

Summary (copied from Amazon's book summary);

A short and amusing story from this Maine author. Here is an excerpt: A good many times people have asked me how I came to own the fastest hound dog in the State of Maine, and why he was known to be the fastest, and I want to tell it just the way it happened so you'll all know the facts. I came from Wytopitlock, where I was living at the time, down to Mattawamkeag on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad one day to buy myself a hound dog. Up to Wytopitlock we was having a run on long-legged rabbits then, I didn't want none of these short-legged dogs that can run all day and not move any. I wanted one with rangy pins that could get close enough to a Wytopitlock rabbit so he'd exert himself and know he was chased. The short-legged dogs we'd been using was no good at all, and I says to myself, "The Hell with that!"