48 Forty Years Beagling 



agreeing with him, thinks that there must have 

 been some merit in his suggestion for the proposed 

 change, else the National Beagle Club would not 

 have ordered the letter printed. He says : "I want 

 to tell Mr. Kreuger that men's opinions undergo 

 changes. ^Vhile I have gone from the little fellows 

 in beagles to the larger class, he has dropped from 

 the upper to the lower class, and I doubt if among 

 his little ones he can find one that equals his Racer, 

 by Rally ex Lill. I esteemed him the superior to 

 his Cameron's Racket in everything aside from 

 head. These were both sizable dogs, and if I am 

 not mistaken, Racer was slightly over the present 

 standard, yet he was a dog of great substance, 

 being muscular and competent to drive all day; 

 but today Mr. Kreuger would have to call him a 

 'weed.' I know that 15-inch dogs properly mated 

 to like bitches produce like themselves, but 12 and 

 13-inch pairs often produce much larger than their 

 kind. 



"Should the standard be raised an inch? Yes. 

 Why? Because there seems to be and is a certain 

 height to which these dogs grow, and the very best 

 of them, both for looks and work, are from 14% 

 to I5I/2 inches, with the preference for quality in 

 favor of the larger ones. Then if such is the case 

 why should the club keep these dogs out of events 



