CHAPTER II 



TRAINING 



IN regard to beagle training, "Quester," of 

 Boston, Massachusetts, takes up this question 

 in Forrest and Stream, in May, 1891, and says 

 partly: "Should a beagle stop at or give tongue 

 at a hole when the quarry has run in? This is a 

 question upon which I am greatly in doubt what to 

 answer. If I should say that he should stop at the 

 hole, someone will say, 'He is a ferret hunter,' but 

 if no is the answer, another one says, 'How does 

 he know when his dog has lost or holed?' Being 

 too young to bear the load of responsibility, I leave 

 the question open. 



"Should a beagle hunt like a setter or pointer, 

 i.e., should he quarter his ground and hunt sys- 

 tematically, or range indifferently, going at his 

 own sweet will? I should say by all means the 

 former, that is hunt like a pointer or setter. Does 

 not a setter work to the best advantage by quarter- 

 ing when game is sought? Is not game-finding the 

 object of hunting with a beagle? Some say no, 

 but that trailing is the primary object. Perhaps it 



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