116 Forty Years Beagling 



Mr. Pottinger Dorsey, in an opinion written in 

 the American Stock-Keeper, gives as his belief that 

 when a rabbit is run stiff to death by beagles that 

 "They die of spasmodic cramp from overexertion 

 of their muscles, or from an overtaxed heart." 



Mr. Dorsey evidently had some trouble with some 

 or rather one of his beagles at a certain field trial. 

 The hound's name was Fade, and Mr. Kreuder in 

 a previous issue of the American Stock-Keeper had 

 referred to this hound as a mongrel, who had been 

 purchased from a toll-gate keeper's son, whom the 

 dog had followed in his search for a home. So Mr. 

 Dorsey gets back at the President of the National 

 Beagle Club in the following letter: "I read the 

 article appearing in your last issue, written by Mr. 

 Kreuder, and w^as disgusted at the manner in which 

 he spoke of my dog, Pade, stating I bought him 

 from the toll-gate keeper's son, whom the dog had 

 followed in his search for a home. 



"Now, Mr. Kreuder, you well knew the assertion 

 was false when you made it. You know this dog 

 was bred by Mr. Charles Shotta, and sold by him 

 to Mr. Jones, and I bought him from Mr. Jones. 

 I want Mr. K. to plainly understand the word of 

 the above gentleman will be accepted as truth as 

 soon as any statement he can make as to Pade being 

 a beagle; he was accepted by the field-trial com- 



