CHAPTER IX 



BONE IN THE BEAGLE 



THE question of the amount of bone that a 

 typical beagle should have, and which is 

 another of those mooted questions which 

 has its partisans, is brought to the surface by Mr. 

 Zimmer, of Gloversville, in the Spring of 1896, 

 under the nom de plume of D. E. B. O'Nair. Mr. 

 George F. Reed, of Barton, Vermont, in criticising 

 this question of bone, opens in the American Stock- 

 Keeper in April, 1896, by referring to Mr. Zim- 

 mer's article in the previous issue as one of the best 

 things he has ever read on the beagle in this paper. 

 He further says that he "don't know this writer, 

 never saw him, never have even written him in my 

 long term of years in breeding beagles, but — shake ! 

 No bone! You are right. 



"This great cry about bone is all a piece of non- 

 sense to a certain degree. I have become ac- 

 quainted with some of these 'bone dogs' and 'bone 

 men' and they are both alike — no great thing in a 

 hot drive. A beagle can have so much bone he is 

 practically no good for a sportsman's dog. ^^^lat 



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