DOMESTIC DOGS. 



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trail. From its small size, short legs, and ratlier heavy build, it is, however, 

 necessarily slow. In hunting, beagles follow all the windings of the hare, and for 

 the first part of the chase are far behind their quarr\-. Their perseverance is, 



Turnspit. 



THE BEAGLE (^ uat. size). 



however, generally successful in the end ; and there is no prettier sight for the 

 lovers of sport than to watch a well-trained pack of beagles at work. 



With the cessation of its monotonous occupation has been 



brought to pass the practical extinction of the old English turnspit. 

 These dogs were long-bodied, short-limbed animals, with the fore-feet everted, 

 and were closely allied to the dachshund ; but diftered in being relatively taller, 

 with a longer head, longer nose, straighter forehead, less bent fore-limbs, and a 

 longer and thinner tail ; the ears being small and placed relatively far back. In 

 colour, the turnspit was generally black -and-tan. These dogs performed their task 

 in a kind of wire barrel, somewhat like that in a .squirrel-cage ; and in England 

 two of them were generally kept, which worked turn-and-turn. 



Under the title of dachshund, or badger-dog, the Germans include 



two distinct strains of long-bodied dogs with short and crooked legs, 

 one of which presents these characters in a less marked degree than the other, and 

 has also relatively larger ears. The breed figured in our illusti-ation has a long 

 cylinder-like body, supported on short and bent legs, the head and muzzle large, the 

 drooping ears also large, the paws of great size and furnished with sharp claws, and 

 the coat short and smooth. The fore-feet are markedly turned outwards, and the 

 hind-feet have large dew-claws ; while the tail is thick at the root, from which it 

 rapidly tapers to the end, without any fringe. The colour varies, but is generally 

 black-and-tan, although not unfrequently either tan or yellowish, and sometimes 



Dachshund. 



