108 Forty Years Beagling 



going at a good clip, and having the nose to back 

 up his 'hustle,' not having to depend upon a slow 

 dog to work out the trail. 



"Speed is desirable, but we should not be carried 

 away with the speed craze that we neglect the more 

 necessary qualities of hunting and nose. A hus- 

 tling man does not amount to much without a level 

 head, and a hustling dog doesn't suit a practical 

 hunter unless the dog has keen scent. Too many 

 beagles of long pedigrees and of bench-show stock, 

 and some of field-trial fame, have to be coaxed to 

 *hunt 'em up,' when the hunting ground is reached. 

 Let breeders aim to produce dogs with the eager- 

 ness to hunt that spaniels have. 



"Mr. Kreuder, in Forest and Stream of Decem- 

 ber 22nd (1894), says: 'Speed without nose is all 

 poppycock and is a physical impossibility.' I can 

 not agree with him, for I have seen beagles hustle 

 a rabbit fast and true for quite a distance, but when 

 the scent became weaker, on less favorable ground, 

 where it required a good nose to carry the trail, 

 these dogs were at a loss until my dog (Ringwood- 

 Flute M. stock), nearly as fast but with a better 

 nose, worked out the trail for them. Now these 

 dogs had speed surely, but were without the proper 

 nose for such speed, so that I claim that speed with- 

 out a good nose is a physical impossibility, and in 



