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hurting the reputation of Royal Kreuger by his 

 statement that this hound could not stay. Mr. 

 Wixom states that Royal Ki-euger has hunted with 

 his pack for five years and never showed the symp- 

 tons alluded to, nor was he gunshy as gossip had it. 

 Mr. Clark was one of the judges at the National 

 Beagle Club trials held at Nanuet, New York, in 

 1891 and had seen this hound run under him as 

 judge. In closing Mr. Wixom states, "It was the 

 treatment that my dogs received at the '91 trials 

 from this man Clark that entirely disgusted me with 

 field trials and I have never entered at any trials 

 since. I could say much more regarding these same 

 trials, but I have already taken too much of your 

 valuable space. However, I could not let the ab- 

 solutely false statement pass without saying a few 

 words regarding the matter." 



Then along comes "Canada Gray" with some 

 caustic remarks about some men's knowledge of the 

 beagle in the following words. "The gi^eat trouble 

 with some of the beagle breeders is that they do not 

 know what working condition is. For myself I 

 never saw a good little dog beat a good big dog. 

 The Turf, Field and Farm brought up a good sub- 

 ject and much could be written on it. I have al- 

 ways been in favor of the 14 or 14% inch beagle, 

 for my hunting is the northern hare, but the dog I 



