66 DOMESTICATED HUNTING-DOGS. 



not tired in trailing along the road from the kennel to the hunting- 

 field and back again. The average hight of these may be taken at 

 10 inches, but their bodies are disproportionately lengthened 

 Patience and perseverance are stir more necessary in these hounds 

 than in their larger brethren, and without them they soon lose 

 their hare, as they must be content to hunt her at a pace with 

 which a man can readily keep up on foot, horses being quite out 

 of place with such a diminutive pack. 



A pack of rabbit-beagles, the property of Mr. Crane, of South- 

 over House, England, we believe to contain the best " patterns " 

 we have ever known. We have seen them on a cold bad scenting 



Fig. 10. BABBIT BEAGLES, GIANT AND RINQLET. 



day work up a rabbit and run him in the most extraordinary man- 

 ner, and although the nature of the ground compelled the pack to 

 run almost in Indian file, and thus to carry a very narrow line of 

 scent, if they threw it up, it was but for a moment. Mr. Crane's 

 standard is 9 in., and every little hound is absolutely perfect. We 

 saw but one hound at all differing from his companions, a littl< 

 black-tanned one. This one on the flags we should have drafted 

 but when we saw him in his work we quite forgave him for being 

 of a conspicuous color. Giant (see portrait) was perhaps the very 

 best of the pack, a black-white-and-tanne:! doghound, always at 

 work, and never wrong. He has a capital tongue, and plenty of 

 it. The bitch, Ringlet, has fie most beautiful points we have ever 

 seen, and is a fit companion for her mate, Giant. Damper, Dutch 



