150 Forty Years Beagling 



up my name, with your permission, I will take up 

 some of your valuable space in answering a few 

 things Mr. Lewis calls facts, that are not facts by 

 any means. For no one has claimed that the light- 

 boned, weedy type has been the winner at our late 

 beagle trials. As to the 'fact' of such hounds as 

 Lee 2nd, Jean Yal Jean, Baronet, Spark R. and 

 Buckshot being as heavy-boned or heavier than 

 Ringleader, I say decidedly 'no.' I own Spark and 

 Buckshot, and know what I am talking about, and 

 I will ask the owners of Lee 2nd, Jean Val Jean, 

 Baronet and other beagles mentioned by Mr. Lewis 

 to let us hear from them in regard to this fact. 



"Now, Mr. Editor, I do not believe in these paper 

 fights, but I am not used to taking any bluff, and as 

 Mr. Lewis throws out a little challenge, I will 

 accept it and be glad to do so; and I will meet his 

 dogs at the New York and Boston shows. As none 

 of Harker's puppies are over two months old today 

 I can not show them at Providence. In exchange 

 I will make Mr. Lewis a challenge and put up a 

 forfeit, and I hope he will accept one and all of 

 the following propositions — I will run Harker 

 against Ringleader for $50.00 a side; Nell R. 

 against Lonely for the same; Harker and Nell R. 

 as a brace against Ringleader and Lonely for the 

 same; to run at the National Beagle Club's trials 



