104 Forty Years Beagling 



time is now past). If you hunt with a very fast 

 dog and put up an old rabbit, where there is not 

 much cover, away he goes, driven by your fast dog. 

 With the slower dog, and of good nose, the rabbit 

 will hide and dodge around, and in all probability 

 you will soon have him. In proof I will relate what 

 I saw on a hunt. jMy dog had been running a rabbit, 

 but the dog was a long distance off, and still work- 

 ing out the trail. I saw the rabbit squat, so I 

 watched his actions. He cleaned his head with his 

 f orepaws, then he cleaned and brushed his whiskers 

 with his forelegs, all the while sitting on his 

 haunches. But as the dog came nearer he squatted 

 low and soon started. He seemed to be playing 

 hide and seek. I did not shoot that rabbit. 



"Now, in regard to nose, one time I had my bea- 

 gles taken five miles through a strange district, in a 

 wagon to the hunting grounds. In hunting we lost 

 one dog in the woods, and when ready to go home 

 found another dog was missing. One dog arrived 

 home about 3 P.M., the other about 8 P.M. Their 

 only chance to find home was bj^ the smell of the 

 horses' hoofs. Another example — I had taken my 

 dogs to an Illinois village; they had never been 

 there before, were fresh and wanted a hunt. After 

 hunting all day, about dark I heard them giving 

 tongue in a large field of tall weeds, and the}' drove 



