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if he were the victor instead of the vanquished. So 

 it would seem that it is not the lot of every success- 

 ful breeder and field-trial man to become a suc- 

 cessful judge, which is a thanldess task at best, even 

 though many aspire to wear the ermine. Judges 

 as a rule receive a daily fee of five dollars and their 

 traveling expenses, though many serve without 

 pay. Still, as the oldtimers like Messrs. Bradford 

 Turpin, Thomas Shallcross, James INIcAleer, L. 

 P. ,Cronmiller, Peter Metz, Charles Vogel and 

 Charles Underwood pass out, others must of nec- 

 essity take their places, and in trying out new pos- 

 sibilities, the greatest care should be exercised in 

 choosing the men who are given the chance to act as 

 judges. 



There is no sport or game in the world, where 

 the decisions are given with more fairness, and 

 where the monetary gain is less, than in the field- 

 trial game of beagling; and where mistakes are 

 made by the judges, it is in almost all cases due 

 solely to ignorance or refusal to follow the braces 

 when down, or inability or lack of desire to do so. 



However, it might be said that in a large country 

 like the United States, with field trials held in va- 

 rious States from Texas to Massachusetts, the idea 

 of what a field-trial beagle should be varies in dif- 

 ferent localities. 



