202 BRITISH DOGS 



these you will be able to cut in here and there, your " field " 

 will run " to the Harriers " instead of " with the Beagles," and 

 the number of your "kills " may be enormously increased. 



Of course, in all hunting the " kill " is the climax, the final 

 victory of the hounds over the quarry, and as such to be desired ; 

 but the true Beagler infinitely prefers a long run over a variety 

 of ground, with all the vicissitudes of hope and fear culminating 

 in the last wild excitement of bursting from scent to view of a 

 failing hare just as dusk begins to replace the daylight; and we 

 are all well content to make tracks for home when the last, even if 

 also the first, triumphant " whoo-whoop " has died away upon 

 the evening air. 



