Registered: Jun 2014
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 3466

I just read on another thread where Driftwoodblue mentioned Waldo Gray. When I was about 15 years old in 1958, I wrote to a Full Cry column writer asking if he knew where I could get a reasonably priced blue tick pup. I guess he knew Waldo Gray because a few days later I got a letter from Mr. Gray saying he would give me a pup if I could pay the freight. I agreed and he sent the pup by rail in a wooden crate. I think the freight was about $8:00. She was a natural. She ran and treed her first time out. And did it consistently after that. I have talked about Waldo Gray many times since that, but I was surprised to see his name. How nice is a guy who lives in Kansas and will give a Cajun boy in south Louisiana a registered pup?

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Registered: Aug 2011
Location: Emporia, Kansas
Posts: 382

You surely had the scope of Waldo,he was one very good fellow- got my first "store bought" haircut there.. when you got a haircut there you got a good dose of local news and always learned about something going on in the hunting world..
when he passed there was standing room only in the church.
Back when I was first starting in the Hounds I was the benefactor of many fine blooded Blues from him.
Richard Fish and Waldo had a longstanding discussion on whether a coon would eat cedar berries!
I would bet that between Richard Fish and I we could fill several pages of Waldo stories!

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Registered: Jun 2014
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 3466

I corresponded with him for about a year and never knew he was a barber. I kept that female for four years until I moved to New Orleans to attend barber college. At the time I was hunting with an old man (probably not as old as I am now LOL) who was very hard of hearing. The female Mr. Gray gave me had high pitched tree bark you hear for a long ways. He had 4 dogs but could only hear mine, so I let him hunt her while I was away. When I got back heart worms had her down. We were lucky to keep a dog 5 years in south Louisiana at that time. I thought about Mr. Gray many times in the last 55 years. Wish I would have gotten to meet him.

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