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Americanus) for an all-day or half -day race, could 

 prove to judges and spectators that he had more 

 'sand' and true hound qualities than the 'sprinter' 

 who won over him in a fifteen or twenty-five minute 

 race. 



"As a result of this a breeder buys the winner 

 of the fifteen minute race to use in his kennel as a 

 stud dog. He 'blows his horn' (nobody blames 

 him for doing so) through his ad., and planty of 

 others send bitches to this dog to be bred, only a 

 few who know their business and know a 'good 

 thing' when they see it, breed to the dog that was 

 defeated and as a consequence there are far more 

 pups sired of the sort that are 'up in the air,' 'long' 

 and 'fast,' all of which are qualities that a real 

 beagle is supposed to possess. All this has led me 

 to conclude many times, that those breeders who 

 have a good trade, who have good dogs, and who 

 stay or keep their dogs in their kennels, away from 

 shows and away from the trials, and who breed for 

 Standard quahties, and who have the satisfaction 

 of every year seeing some they had bred, come 

 nearer to it, are about as well blessed as any of 

 them. 



"They are the ones that may be the means of yet 

 preserving the true type of beagles after this craze 

 for speed has died out, and when men who know 



