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a blue or reel ribbon on the clog’s collar. Is this 
right ? Is this fair to the exhibitor, who through 
some engagement, is unable to he present to handle, 
perhaps, his one or two dogs he has carefully bred, 
and for whom the rich breeder has no more respect 
that I have for some ‘trundle tail’ type? Is it for 
the good of any breed that judges will allow them¬ 
selves to be so biased or that breeders will so dis¬ 
honor themselves?” 
In the same publication a writer signing himself 
“Chicasaw” writes under the heading, “Standard 
or Individual Opinions.” “I think,” he writes, 
“I will elect to write my little say on this subject 
under the above caption as I think it more definitely 
defines the chasm which seems to divide the ideas 
that some of our judges appear to have and the 
standard which they should uphold. I would like 
to know how many judges study the standard in¬ 
telligently, which means carefully, and then seek 
to fit the dogs to them? Do they not gather their 
conceptions of what a good dog should be from 
the winners they find on the benches? 
“There are few men who can define the standard 
properly. Your Gloversville friend (Mr. Zimmer) 
refers to cobbiness in a beagle. I am not a beagle 
man, further than I like to see the little hounds and 
hear their cry, still a dog of the cobby build of 
Champion Royal Krueger, Champion Lonely, Bow¬ 
man and but one or two more I could mention, 
catches my eye for the eternal fitness of things, very 
much quicker than would Molly, Champion Twin- 
two, or Wixom’s Dorcas, I think her name is, which 
are long-backed, if I remember rightly. There will 
