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harrier, a perfect body, loins, back, stern, and ears 

 to correspond, and she was as merry as a grig 

 and when on the line of hare or rabbit as melo- 

 dious as a peal of wedding bells. Blue Belle was 

 purchased at one of the Sussex exhibitions when a 

 puppy for about thirty shillings. 



Since that time several lovely little hounds have 

 been introduced, Mr. Crofton's Opera and Prima 

 Donna, barely 10 inches in height, being, no doubt, 

 the choicest of the smaller ones. Of the larger, Mr. 

 Lord's Robin Hood and Lignum have never been 

 excelled, and Mr. Joachim's Reader, Lonely, 

 Lonely IL, and Piccolo are as handsome a two 

 couple as man need desire. At Brighton one 

 annually sees a handy lot of beagles, which are used 

 for work on the Downs, the master of them (Mr. 

 F. Daniel) being ever foremost in advocating their 

 interests. 



Most of these smaller beagles are used for rabbit 

 hunting and for working the coverts, which duties 

 they perform most admirably. Mr. Lord has a very 

 ingenious way to get a maximum amount of work 

 out of his pets. Residing not far from large, uncul- 

 tivated tracks of moorland, about three-quarters of 

 an hour before unkennelling his hounds he sends 

 out a man with a drag, who lays it for three or four 

 miles, and then liberates a rabbit, the latter usually 



