FORTY YEARS BEAGLING IN 

 THE UNITED STATES 



CHAPTER I 



GKOUND WORK 



A LETTER appears in Forest and Stream, 

 December 13th, 1883, from the pen of Mr. 

 W. H. Ashburner, suggesting a standard 

 for the formation of the original beagle club in 

 the United States, in which he states, if beagle 

 admirers want standards to accommodate certain 

 kennels or packs, it can be done without the for- 

 mation of a club, simply by adopting its own. He 

 suggests that a committee be appointed to draft a 

 standard. 



The earliest accounts of the formation of the 

 first beagle club in the United States, known as 

 the "American English Beagle Club," brought out 

 much discussion as to the use of the word English. 

 We find that the first beaglers to move for a beagle 

 club were Messrs. Ashburner and Kreuger, of 

 whom the former became the first president. Some 

 correspondents, and evidently ardent beaglers. 



