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slower dog, takes one trail away from him by speed, 

 and watches him on the turns. 



"I have just such a hound, and I know from 

 experience that any beagle judge that I know of 

 would give him the decision over Rover. If nothing 

 happens, I shall send him to the Eastern trials next 

 year, and hope this description of him will not 

 prejudice the judges against him. 



"I don't blame Mr. Kreuder for buying Buck- 

 shot and all the fast dogs he can find, if he never 

 had a beagle worthy the man that could not keep 

 within fifteen or twenty minutes of the best beagle 

 livinpr on a rabbit trail. I never had the misfortune 

 to see such a dog myself. We don't breed such 

 beagles in the West. I have one regret in regard 

 to the National trials that Buckshot and Frank 

 Forest did not run a heat together. It would have 

 been interesting to have witnessed the result. An- 

 other word, and I wdll close. Mr. Clark judged the 

 Northwestern trials on the same lines that the Na- 

 tional trials were judged, I should think, and now 

 I have no doubt more Western men are of my 

 opinion that the system is wrong. In conclusion, 

 please allow me to withdraw the offensive word 

 'easily' from my version of the way in which Rover 

 beat Nell R. If he beat her at all, that is enough. 

 But the excuse made that she was tired from a heat 



