i82 Hounds 



one only fitted as a toy dog. A reduction in size 

 destroys the hound characteristics, therefore the 

 utihty of these dogs, the breed having originally 

 been designed for hunting the hare, though many 

 sportsmen use them for rabbit-shooting, for which 

 purpose they are particularly suitable. Rough 

 and smooth-coated varieties of these hounds exist, 

 and a standard of points has been formulated by 

 the Enghsh Beagle Club and by the American 

 Beagle Club. 



A beagle may be any hound colour, but the most 

 popular are black, white-and-tan, then lemon-white, 

 blue and lemon-mottle, black-and-tan, lemon, fawn, 

 etc. It has already been pointed out that a hound 

 may become (by in-breeding from under-sized 

 specimens) too small, and in the same way it may 

 become too large through breeding from big, coarse 

 hounds, therefore, in order to correct these defects, 

 the Beagle Clubs have a standard of height, whilst 

 the Kennel Club adopts the following classification : 



(i) Hounds not exceeding lo inches. 



(2) Hounds not exceeding 12 inches. 



(3) Over 10, but not exceeding 12 inches. 



(4) Over 12 inches, but not over 16 inches. 



(5) In the Novice Class any height. 



(6) Class for rough coats. 



The English Beagle Club's classification is divided 



