158 Forty Years Beagling 



sups, Maryland, which would seem to prove that 

 the small beagle was a hunting hound. 



In what follows regarding the series of chases 

 one will notice that Mr. Bond alludes to the rabbit 

 as a hare, though it would seem that it must have 

 been the cotton-tail which was the object of the 

 chase. In part Mr. Bond says: "I have been told 

 there are many owners of beagles and old rabbit- 

 hunters that do not believe a pack of medium-sized 

 beagles can, as a rule, run down and kill a full 

 grown rabbit. They will admit that once in a good 

 while, with luck, one may be caught, but twice in a 

 while never! If any such unbelievers could have 

 been with me last Thursday and Friday they would 

 have been forever convinced of their error. 



"I paid a visit to my old Confederate friend and 

 comrade. Judge David Griffith, of Montgomery 

 County, and in company with his son, and their 

 neighbor, Mr. Bradley Macgi'uder, hunted four 

 or five hours a day for a couple of days. We had 

 fifteen beagles, several belonging to each of us, and 

 by no means carefully selected as a killing pack, 

 as three of them were puppies under eight months 

 old, and old Rose will be fifteen years this Febru- 

 ary. The fastest pair we had out were Flight and 

 Flirt, and both of these are under twelve inches in 

 height, as indeed, were quite one half of the pack. 



