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the old-fashioned beagle and the Basset does not 

 amount to much except in the legs, and two genera- 

 tions I found quite sufficient to reduce the beagles' 

 legs to those of the Bassets', plus the racial 

 peculiarity. 



" In 1877, as Lord Onslow had, through me, 

 obtained from Comte le Couteulx a dog and a bitch, 

 I gave up the beagle line and, in 1878, began to 

 breed pure-bred through Garenne, a bitch by Model 

 out of Lord Onslow's Finette, which, with her 

 brother Fino, he had imported the previous year. 

 In 1880 I was able, through the use of that Fino, to 

 show in the first class given for Bassets in England, 

 namely, at Wolverhampton. 



" Up to this date, then, the only owners and 

 breeders of Bassets were Lord Onslow and myself ; 

 but in the spring of that year Mr. G. R. Krehl and 

 Mr. Louis Clement imported Fino de Paris, Jupiter, 

 Pallas, Guinevere, Theo, Vivien, and others which 

 it is needless here to mention. By 1886 we were 

 able to place 120 on the bench at the Dachshund 

 and Basset show in the Aquarium. How many 

 there are now in the country it would be difficult to 

 say, but the number is very large, though the entries 

 at shows are not as great as they might be. 



" To return, however, to 1880, when Mr. Krehl 

 imported Fino de Paris, it was observable that the 



