"Happ^/ the mam who with unusual speed. 

 Can pass his feUotcs and tcitlt pleasure view 

 The sfruf/f/liiif/ pack: //oti' in the rapid course 

 Alternated then preside, and jostlij, push 

 To guide the dubious scent." 



Somervile. 



XIX 



FOOT BEAGLES 



SCHOOL AND COLLEGE FOOT BEAGLES — THE DELAPRE HALL 

 BEAGLES — A DAY WITH AN OXFORD COLLEGE '^'^CRY"" — COM- 

 PARISON OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN COLLEGE SPORTS. 



HUNTING the hare on foot with beagles has always been 

 in great favour in Great Britain. Beagle hounds are 

 generally admitted to be a very ancient race of dogs, wliich 

 the writer believes are of French origin. 



The foot beagles of Great Britain are largely owned in 

 private packs and hunted as such, or in company with neigh- 

 bouring beagles brought together for a day's sport. 



A pack or "Cry" of foot beagles is about the best school- 

 ing a boy can have as a primary training to the science of hunt- 

 ing with otter, fox or staghounds. 



Many a keen sportsman of a father has a pack of beagles 

 for his sons and daughters to hunt with and he encourages 

 them in it from the time they can run about. Before that 

 they go out to see the fun from a baby carriage or in the arms 

 of a sturdy English nurse or governess. 



There are also a few packs of Basset hounds there, that 



