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is, but you must find the game before it is trailed, 

 must you not? This is also an open question and 

 one on which I would like to hear different opinions 

 passed. 



"Let us hear from and a host of others, 



telling us kids 'how to train a beagle in the way 

 he should go,' or else after we have adopted a plan 

 of our own contrary to theirs, let them forever hold 

 their peace and not grumble when they find the 

 trials are run contrary to their ideas." 



"Student," from Hartford, Connecticut, and 

 "S.P.M.," from Pt. Rowan, Ontario, take up the 

 question of training, and the latter advocates the 

 use of a horn, and says that he goes out for sport 

 and that the pot-hunters laugh at him, as they can 

 take a ferret and kill twice as many without a 

 dog, for he loves to sit on a fence and listen to his 

 hounds go into the brush, waiting for them to start 

 a rabbit. 



Next comes "Uncas," in June, of the same peri- 

 odical, and, referring to "Quester's" remarks about 

 the training of beagles, as to whether they should 

 be under control or not, remarks that reference is 

 e\ddently made to the National Beagle Club trials 

 of the preceding year, which calls for a beagle to be 

 under control and therefore agrees with "Quester." 

 In reference to this he likens his hounds to his house 



