Field Trial Beagle Type 177 



trial kind ; I want a dog to take a trail, and follow 

 it, steadily: 'English style.' 



"Does Mr. Card estimate that the winners at our 

 recent trials cannot take a trail and follow it stead- 

 ily? He says 'Field trials are developing a lanky, 

 light-boned hound, all nose and legs; the handlers 

 kick up the hare, etc. ;' I wonder at what trials did 

 Mr. Card see this class of dog win, or did he ever 

 see a field trial run? I must admit that I have 

 never attended any of the Eastern trials, but I 

 have run up against the winners of those trials twice 

 at the Central Trials, and must say I found them 

 pretty much the same kind of dogs I would take 

 with me were I going for a day's sport afield, or to 

 fill a bag with rabbits. 



"By the way, I find field trial winners make very 

 satisfactory shooting dogs, and if Mr. Card will at- 

 tend the National or Central Trials next fall, I 

 think we can show him a kind of beagle that he is 

 evidently not familiar with ; one that is not only able 

 to take a trail and follow it steadily, but can catch 

 a turn once in a while, and kick up a rabbit occa- 

 sionally, while brushing around. 



"I have heard some lamenting the loss of that 

 soft pleading eye, so desirous in the show beagle. 

 I have seen this eye, have had it turned on me when 

 the poor little owner crouched trembling at my feet, 



