38 Forty Years Beagling 



it would be too much like work, and I was born 

 tired. 



"I expect to show up at the field trials to be held 

 at Nanuet in November, and in all probability my 

 dogs will get pegged back simply because they are 

 not under control, and perhaps because there are 

 better hunters. Still, like Mr. Reed, I think I have 

 as good beagles as the next man. 



"In one of your contemporaries some party tells 

 us that, in training his beagles, he 'rushes to start- 

 ing point and follows right on trail, close to their 

 heels, etc' Xow, that's all very well, but if he can 

 follow 'close on the heels' of my hunting pack for 

 two hours, or one hour, he can make more money 

 as a pedestrian in six months than he can out of 

 dogs in twenty years." 



So it would seem that in those days of the early 

 Nineties the beaglers had their various ideas of how 

 to train and hunt beagles as they varied in their 

 ideas of the interpretations of the beagle standard 

 which was adopted by the parent organization, for 

 from what follows on this subject the minds of 

 those days were more or less the minds of today, 

 except as to size. 



