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should disapprove of the efforts for the advance- 

 ment and improvement of this breed of dogs, to 

 say nothing of offering rabbit dogs for from $5.00 

 to $8.00, when it is well Imown that a beagle can 

 not be raised to be a qualified hunter for less than 

 $20.00." 



H. Gardner Nichols of Cambridge, Massachu- 

 setts, follows with his reasons for not wanting to 

 change the standard, claiming inadequate reasons 

 have been advanced for such a change, yet admits 

 that twenty-five years before this time the beagles 

 were larger and had been bred down to the present 

 standard of size, and is glad to see that the majority 

 of beaglers do not favor such a change as has been 

 suggested. 



Mr. W. S. Clark favors the change and takes up 

 the cudgels in defense of Phoebus, stating that he 

 knows that Mr. Phoebus' s arguments were not ad- 

 vanced to favor his own hounds. Then Mr. F. W. 

 Chapman, of Melrose, Massachusetts, gets in the 

 game with his arguments in favor of not changing 

 the standard and refers to an 18-inch beagle he 

 knew of which was a dog by a son of General Row- 

 ett's Old Lee, out of a half sister of Frank Forest, 

 and refers to beagles in England which run from 

 16 to 19 inches. 



"Bradley" then hunts up the growth of the 



