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hounds which Mr. Phoebus had referred to and 

 finds that this hound was at that time 17l/^ inches, 

 sired one htter out of a 14-inch bitch, that all the 

 litter except one had died and that the sole survivor 

 at eight months of age had attained a height of 

 161/2 inches when he was killed by a railroad train. 



And then comes a letter from Mr. L. H. Twad- 

 ell of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dated June 

 30th, 1892, which gives the history of the formation 

 of the standard. "As my name has frequently 

 appeared of late in the discussion of the height 

 question in the beagle standard, I feel that a state- 

 ment of some of the reasons for a rigid limit might 

 be proper just at this time. 



"When the Beagle Club was first contemplated, 

 W. H. Ashburner called on me to confer as to its 

 feasibility. We decided that it was first of all 

 necessary to enlist the cooperation of the few beagle 

 breeders then in the country, and I will here re- 

 mark, 'en passant,' that to Mr. Ashburner the 

 beagle men of today must award the credit of hav- 

 ing greatly assisted in giving the breed its present 

 prominence. There was a lot of correspondence 

 done, and with sportsmen living wide apart and 

 details innumerable necessary to the organization 

 of the club, all of which he painstakingly worked 

 out. 



