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only for count? If he gets a lot of rabbits the dog 

 is good, few rabbits, the dog is bad. He ought to 

 get a ferret and a net and give up hunting with 

 dogs altogether/' 



This note was brought about by a letter of Mr. 

 F. B. Robinson's, who stated that you could take 

 the majority of beagles and they did not amount 

 to much, and "I can bring a great many proofs to 

 that effect" is what he stated. 



"Agamak," from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, stated 

 that he believed that too much stress was being laid 

 on show points by most beagle breeders and that 

 therefore the hound was becoming too light and 

 weak. 



Then comes a corker from "Hibernia," in 

 Forest and Stream, headed, "EngHsh vs. American 

 Beagles." He begins in a good-natured way with 

 the statement that he does not consider it fair for 

 three Englishmen and one American to jump upon 

 an Irishman because he stated what he thought was 

 true about the beagles of England and America. 

 For he states truthfully that when he wrote the 

 article he intended to run away like the tramp who 

 fired the bam and let the people put out the fire. 

 Yet did they? No. Well, as he continues, "But 

 as none of the Beagle Club will come to my rescue 

 and stick up for theii* standard, i.e., a beagle is a 



