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sport is afforded, and the music of the hound will 

 always tell you in which direction the rabbit is coming. 

 Fifteen years ago, Mr. Nutt had his pack at one of 

 the Kennel Club's Shows at the Alexandra Palace, 

 and much to the delight of the visitors, ran a trail 

 with them amongst the shrubs of the Palace grounds, 

 the late Mr. Edward Sandall taking an active part 

 therein. 



From the earliest times there have been at least 

 three varieties of the beagle, ordinary smooth coated, 

 rough or wire haired, and others black and tan in 

 colour. Richardson, in 1851, writes of a Kerry 

 beagle, which, he says, is u a fine, tall, dashing hound, 

 averaging twenty-six inches in height, and occasion- 

 ally, individual dogs attain to twenty-eight inches. 

 He has deep chops, broad, pendulous ears, and 

 when highly bred is hardly to be distinguished from 

 an indifferent bloodhound." The same author further 

 says they are used to hunt the deer, and that there 

 are two packs in the neighbourhood of Killarney. 



I have made enquiries in various parts of Ireland, 

 as to the survival of the Kerry beagle and his present 

 whereabouts. One of the packs alluded to by 

 Richardson that of Mr. Herbert, at Muckross was 

 discontinued as long ago as 1847. These hounds 

 were twenty-six inches in height, most of them 

 black and tan in colour, some of them all tan. The 



