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rock}% bushy pastures, and keep them going pretty 

 surely and steadily at as good a rate of speed as 

 dogs from 13 to 15 inches? 



"Mr. Fellows has probably had more experience 

 with small beagles than I have, still, I have had 

 some and my experience has given me a contrary 

 opinion. He says they can go anywhere bunny 

 can, but I don't think that is necessary, and a fast 

 driving good dog is not apt to attempt to do it, ex- 

 cept at times when he misses the track, when he can 

 go through a brush heap or clump of thick bushes in 

 a way which would be impossible to a little dog. 

 Besides hunting with a little dog, because he can go 

 'anywhere that bunny can' would be too much like 

 using a ferret which some of us consider unsports- 

 manlike. Beagles have been bred up to 15 inches 

 in height for several years, but if Mr. Fellows ob- 

 jects to such huge dogs being called a beagle — 

 'which means small' — we can call them something 

 else without any detriment to any of their good 

 qualities, and if the little dogs cannot get justice 

 done them in the show ring, why not have a class 

 for toy beagles and have them judged by a toy man, 

 with a score card? 



Mr. E. O. Cornforth then adds his say to the ar- 

 gument, for he was evidently an owner and breeder 

 of them if we judge his letter which follows in the 



