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kind. I want a dog to take a trail and follow it 

 steadily, English style. Field trials are develop- 

 ing a lanky, light-boned hound, all nose and legs. 

 The handlers kick up the hare, the dogs are put on 

 and charge after it like whippets. When it doubles, 

 they are helped to find the trail again, and when the 

 rabbit goes to earth, which it soon does, the judge 

 gives the prize to the dog that ran the fastest. Such 

 a hound is of no use here, except in South-western 

 Ontario. And then Ringleader and Sailor both win 

 on the bench under the same judge. It's all very 

 funny." 



Mr. MacAleer replies to Mr. Card's slur upon 

 field trials hurting the beagle breed in the following 

 letter a short time later: "Now while it is very evi- 

 dent that Mr. Card knows a whole lot about beagles, 

 I cannot fully agree with him in regard to field 

 trials injuring the little hound. I may be making a 

 very broad statement, but I cannot help it, when I 

 claim field trials have done more in the last four or 

 five years in advancing the true beagle or working 

 beagle, than bench shows have ever done; and the 

 only beagle that should be allowed to live is the 

 worldng beagle. If we want a house pet why not 

 take a sweet little, watery-eyed pug, or some other 

 breed created especially for that purpose. 



"Mr. Card says 'I am not trying to breed the field 



