I04 ON DACHSHUNDS 



sporting dog- ? and what use would a cripple 

 have been In such a country ? I have known 

 my dachshunds follow chamois along paths 

 on the face of sheer rock many hundred feet 

 high. Could a cripple do that ? 



As for the non-sporting side of the 

 question, the suitability of dachshunds as 

 companions, I think there can be only one 

 opinion, but that It Is entirely beyond the 

 scope of this paper, which I will close with 

 a story told by Herr Cornell, a name familiar 

 to many Englishmen. He lost his two 

 dachshunds in the woods one day when out 

 fox-shooting. Five days after, a woodman 

 came, and said he had seen one crying at the 

 mouth of a fox-earth. Going to the spot, he 

 found one dog, and digging into the earth 

 the other, safe and sound. This dog had 

 followed the fox In, but a falling rock had 



