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Venus 2nd, and others I can mention, these were 

 beagles, rabbit drivers and pushers from beginning 

 to end; they had bone enough and plenty of muscle 

 to go with it. I think I know whom D. E. B. 

 O'lNTair refers to, and what dogs he has in his mind, 

 but of this I will say nothing. When he strikes a 

 field trial his cry will not be for bone, but for speed 

 and nose, O'Nair, and he never will get it out of 

 *all bone' either. 



"In looking over the American Stock-Keeper 

 this morning I read 'Comedy's' piece, and I see 

 he is not one of these 'all bone' fellows either. Now, 

 O'Nair, there are not so many of them in the East 

 which run that way as you might think, but what 

 there are talk loud and often, but they tire easily 

 when a good practical breeder gets a drive at them. 

 But what took the cake was this : I was talking in 

 Boston about breeding better voices to some of the 

 beagles, and one party says : 'Beed, you will have 

 to do it by breeding to one of those English dogs 

 that has lots of bone.' Well, I didn't faint, but I 

 went out of the hall and got a sandwich, and won- 

 dered how a beagle with a leg hke a Mastiff could 

 get a clear tenor voice like Quabog Belle or Jack 

 Bannerman by breeding to him. This more bone 

 racket may catch a few 'greenies' but it will have 

 no weight with a practical breeder, or the sports- 



