14 Forty Years Beagling 



miniature foxhound, I will give another installment 

 of my little piece and drop the matter for good. 

 [But was it so little?] For fear that your readers 

 may suppose that all this discussion is either a 

 masked battery loaded to kill somebody else's dog 

 or else one of those harmless bombs that are con- 

 tinually going off in the dog press to boom certain 

 lots of beagles, I will state that I am not a member 

 of a beagle club, never judged in the ring in my 

 life and never used the reading columns of the dog 

 papers to advertise \\ithout cost any dog I owned. 

 "I have bred beagles since 1876, but have been 

 one of those short-sighted fellows who insist upon 

 a beagle doing field work, no matter how likely he 

 was to make a sawdust hero. Notwithstanding all 

 this, I have an admiration for the type that General 

 Kowett brought over here, and I want to blow my 

 little whistle in protest against the indiscriminate 

 awarding of prizes to the foxhound or bloodhound 

 types, which has been going on since the importa- 

 tion of 'Bannerman.' Both cannot be correct, let the 

 breeders decide which is preferred and decisions be 

 given accordingly. 'Namquoit' is quoted as saying 

 that the beagles he saw in England the preceding 

 summer were miniature foxhounds. Furthermore, 

 this chap states that 'Hibernia' calls (Enghsh) 

 Ringwood's head a caricature of a bloodhound. 



