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run the day before is rather a hard one on the bitch. 

 Yet ]Mr. Reed says he breeds for staying quahties 

 and bottom. Send a bitch West, Mr. Reed, and 

 I will breed her to a dog that won't get tired out 

 in a day or a week either, and won't charge you a 

 cent." 



And then Mr. H. L. Kreuder, President of the 

 National Beagle Club of America, comes out with 

 his ideas of what men enter beagles in bench shows 

 and field trials for when he states in Forest and 

 Stream, of May 18th, 1895, that "At bench shows 

 an exhibitor has one of tvro objects in view when 

 making his entries. It is either to win the prizes 

 or dispose of the dog. At field trials but one motive 

 prompts one in making entries, and that is to win." 



Xow it would seem that ]\Ir. J. F. Stoddard, of 

 George tov/n, Xew York, was not anything but a 

 lazy hunter, if his remarks which follow anent his 

 ideas of hunting with the beagle, as written by him 

 in Jmie, 1895, are any criterion of his enthusiasm 

 for the merry httle hound. For he says: "Since 

 writing for your interesting paper two or three 

 months ago, beagle items have seemed scarce, so 

 perhaps it would not be intruding to again venture 

 an opinion or two concerning working beagles. 

 Xow in regard to a hunter, a broken beagle, give 

 me one that I can take to the brush, sit down on a 



