Weight in Beagles 167 



as a 15 inch dog, if he is built right ; and for my own 

 fancy I Hke them best from 13 to 14 inches. Dogs 

 mider 13 inches that I would call well made for 

 workers, are scarce, and when I have found them I 

 have also found that if they were willing, they were 

 able to do more work and do it easier than the others 

 in their class, though w^hen run with larger dogs 

 they were generally at a disadvantage. 



"Blossom, the winner of 13 inch all age class, and 

 Ida, novice, winner of 13 inch derby, should be 

 bench show winners, and both did hard work in 

 hunting and driving at Oxford, but they are not 

 big enough to hold their own with winners in the 

 15 inch classes. They are as good little ones as I 

 know of, but I don't know any more about their size 

 than that they were in the small class, but a guess 

 would place them at about 12 inches. Mr. Fiske 

 would give you their exact measurements and 

 weights." 



Mr. F. W. Chapman of Ellsworth, Maine, refers 

 to the hundreds of beagles he has owned and hunted 

 and striking an average, says he should say that "in 

 a well-proportioned dog of 13 or 14 inches of height, 

 22 to 27 pounds would be about right. I have a list 

 of some dozens of my best workers for some six or 

 seven years back, in which I have kept measurement 

 of height, chest, weight, ears, etc., and have arrived 



