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DOMESTICATED OUNTING-DOGS. 



not tired in trailinEj along the road from the kennel to the huntings^ 

 field and back again. The average hight of these may be taken at 

 10 inches, but their bodies are disproportionately lengthened. 

 Patience and perseverance are stil' more necessary in these hounds 

 than in their larger brethren, and without them they soon lose 

 their hare, as they must be content to hunt her at a pace with 

 which a man can readily keep up on foot, horses being quite ouf 

 of place with such a diminutive pack. 



A pack of rabbit-beagles, the property of Mr. Crane, of South- 

 over House, England, we believe to contain the best "patterns" 

 we have ever known. "We have seen them on a cold bad scenting 



Fig. 10, — RABBIT BEAGLES, GIANT AXD RINGLET. 



day work up a rabbit and run him in the most extraordinary man- 

 ner, and although the nature of the ground compelled the pack to 

 run almos-t m Indian file, and thus to carry a very nnrrow line of 

 scent, if they tlirew it up, it was but for a moment. Mr. Crane's 

 standard is 9 in., and every little hound is absolutely perfect. TVe 

 saw but one hound at all differina, from his companions, a littk 

 black-tanned one. This one on the flags we should have drafted 

 but when we saw him in liis work we quite forgave him for being 

 of a conspicuous color. Giant (see portnit) was perhaps the very 

 best of the pack, a black-whitc-nnd-tannel dogiiound, always at 

 work, and never wrong. He has a capital tonirne, and plenty of 

 It. The bitch, Ringbt, has the most beautiful points wc Imvc ever 

 seen, and b a fit companion for her mate, Gi.mt. D^unper, Dutch 



