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good meal, and dry them well before the fire. 

 If you neglect these precautions, and allow 

 them to coil up and go to sleep before feeding 

 and drying, you will find them in the morning 

 stiff as an iron hoop, and quite dead. They 

 die in their sleep, and one morning I found 

 three dogs so, though these were certainly 

 delicate dogs, one being a 4 * fancy, "and the other 

 two Blenheim spaniels. The best dog to stand 

 rabbit hunting in the gorse is the Scotch terrier 

 crossed with the rabbit beagle; such a cross 

 produces a rough, wiry-coated beagle, with the 

 true beagle music in his voice. 



We had two little beagles called Frolic and 

 Fancy, and I have never seen any others like 

 them ; they were smaller than many cats, 

 and their bones finer, whilst their ears were 

 like wafers, and one could actually tie them 

 underneath the mouth. They were not worth 

 their keep for hunting in the gorse, and were 

 really only fit to hunt on a lawn ; but they were 

 fit for any drawing room, being as neat as wax 

 work, and as clean as a man's face freshly shaven. 

 They were given to Mr. Fuller by a gentleman 



