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garden. What dog found the trail, drove the rab- 

 bit into the rails and marked him, and was ordered 

 to be caught by the judges as she was trying to 

 work into the rails after her game ? are the questions 

 that I wish to ask Mr. Buckstaff, and I venture 

 to say that if he will take the trouble to inform him- 

 self he will find that it was Nell R., and also, that 

 the rabbit might have been in the garden now for 

 all Rover did toward driving him out. Was there 

 anything about that heat upon which Mr. Buck- 

 staff can claim that Rover beat Nell R. so easily? 

 "When notice was given out of the dogs that 

 were to be left in for the second series I was satis- 

 fied to find that Nell had been left out. I well knew 

 that she could not get into the money, for I had 

 not seen anything done by her or Rover that would 

 entitle them to run again. Nell being only a little 

 over one year old, and having to run in the Derby 

 the next day, had a chance to rest up, and, I think, 

 her heat with Lucy in the Derby was the fastest 

 and truest heat of the entire trials, and if Rover 

 had run against her that day, it would have been 

 'poor Rover.' 



"Now in the heat between Buckshot and Rover, 

 Mr. Buckstaff says : * After a hot heat, it was de- 

 cided that Rover had the best nose, but Buckshot 

 was too fast for him.' Not any, please, Mr. Buck- 



