ON DACHSHUNDS 99 



mention the field trials held in many places, 

 where prizes are given to the best dachs- 

 hunds (in various classes) at bolting foxes 

 and badgers from scientifically laid-out 

 earths. 



I now come to his uses in this country. 

 First and foremost, dachshunds entered 

 young make a pretty, handy, and smart pack 

 of beagles. The only difficulty, to my mind, 

 is to get them musical enough, but they can 

 be found so in Germany, and, for aught I 

 know, in England. English dachshunds will 

 do very well for this purpose, for the basset- 

 cross which must have been used to get the 

 position of the ear our judges go for (and 

 which also brought the prominent shape of 

 the back of the skull, the weak, snipy jaw, 

 and the want of pluck generally found in 

 English dachshunds) is no drawback here. 



