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assertion, but it amounts to just the same thing 

 when Mr. Card does so and 'Comedy' says, my re- 

 marks to the contrary were entirely uncalled for. 

 "Pilot won first in All Age, and Championship 

 at the National Trials in 1896. This is proof that 

 he is of the field-trial kind, or the kind field trials are 

 developing. Does Mr. Card call him a lanky, light- 

 boned whippet, and does 'Comedy' think Mr. Card 

 has just hit the nail on the head in doing so? Your 

 correspondent may be a breeder of many years 

 standing and know a great deal about the different 

 strains of beagles, but I must say 'there are others' ; 

 probably as well-known as any among them are 

 Mr. G. F. Reed and 'Dan' Summers (died June, 

 1920). 



"I suppose those men feel now as if they had 

 nothing more to live for when such an old breeder 

 tells them they have spent their dollars and years 

 in breeding up a pack of long-legged whippets that 

 can run a hare only by sight and fit Mr. Card's 

 conception of a field trial— "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 ... the judge gives the prize to the dog 

 that ran the fastest.' 



"I, for one, think that our field trials have been 



