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up tliis article with the saying, "Show me a beagle 

 that is only fit for the bench and not a hunter, pro- 

 viding he has had the chance to make one, and I 

 would not accept him as a gift and be under obliga- 

 tion to keep him." 



Next comes an article on "Dependence on Pedi- 

 grees," by "Hibernian," which says: "Pedigrees 

 are very useful things in the doggy world. They 

 enable breeders to get rid of a lot of stock that 

 otherwise would be and ought to be consigned to 

 the bucket in puppyhood. As a rule the novice's 

 first purchase is a pedigree, the dog itself being a 

 secondary consideration. After a while he gets 

 wise, but at first the pedigree is the most essential 

 part of the purchase." 



And then we read of another race run down at 

 Mr. Pottinger Dorsey's home in Frederick County, 

 Maryland, where Lee 2nd just missed catching the 

 rabbit, but got his tail. (How^ many know that 

 at one time this hound was owned by Harry T. 

 Peters of the Windhole Kennels, of Islip, Long 

 Island?) The pack consisted of Lee 2nd, Boston, 

 Imported Chimer, Wanderer, Fancy, Annie Bell, 

 Music, Fairy, Weenauman, and Blue Dick. 



Mr. Spencer Borden from Fall River, Massa- 

 chusetts, says in the Rider and Driver of February 

 11th, 1899, that "Experience, with study, results 



