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"A three or four days' show will give the two 

 former a biscuit belly, i.e., they will be distended 

 from the extra feeding. The latter will probably 

 have eaten more or less biscuit, but will have missed 

 his accustomed meat feed and will weigh less at the 

 end of the show than before. Comments on which 

 is the more fit for work intended are unnecessary." 



We find that in 1898 Mr. James L. Kernochan, 

 the owner of the Hempstead Beagles, held a puppy 

 show for beagles which were walked by people in 

 that neighborhood, a custom that prevails in Eng- 

 land, but which did not meet with continued suc- 

 cess, though there were some twenty-nine entries, 

 so the show was not repeated. 



The next innovation in the American Beagle 

 world w^as the purchase by the National Beagle 

 Club of a home and field trial grounds, between 

 Leesburgh and Aldie, Virginia, consisting of some 

 600 acres of wonderful rolling country. A bench 

 show is held during the fortnight of the trials, gen- 

 erally on a Sunday, to which the countryside is 

 invited and entertained at luncheon. The judges 

 for the field trials and bench show are different 

 gentlemen. 



