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late Mr. E. Sandall ran a trail, and after due law the 

 little hounds were uncoupled. They soon made out 

 the Hne, and merrily throwing their voices, gave us a 

 pretty bit of hound-work through the shrubberies. 

 Up to within two or three years ago Mr. Nutt kept 

 beagles near Pul borough, both wire haired and 

 smooth, but these were larger than those he had at 

 the London show named. He was master of as neat 

 a little pack as man need desire, which he mostly 

 used to beat the coverts for rabbits and pheasants, 

 instead of employing human labour, which I always 

 considered a little more dangerous for the dog than 

 it would have been for the man. 



Greater attention appears to have been given to 

 the beagle in the South of England than elsewhere, 

 and the county of Sussex has usually been noted for 

 them. Indeed, the handsome blue-mottled speci- 

 mens were at one time known as Sussex beagles ; 

 and I fancy that from this county first sprang the 

 variety with a wire-haired coat, not unlike a miniature 

 otter hound or Welsh hound in appearance. Mr. 

 H. P. Cambridge, of Bloxworth, is alluded to by 

 " Stonehenge " as having a pack of 13-inch beagles 

 in which there were some rough hounds. One of 

 the best of these, black, tan, and white in colour, 

 originally came from near Cranbourne. About thirty 

 years ago I saw a peculiar little beagle, some 



