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will send to the trials must weigh from one to two 

 pounds less than when conditioned for a season's 

 hunting. Field trial heats are short and speed and 

 nose are two necessary requisites. A fast dog is 

 nearly always a good starter." 



Who was the owner of the first beagle in Mary- 

 land? We find it in a letter from Mr. C. Staley 

 Doub of Frederick, Maryland, to Mr. George R. 

 Reed, stating the fact that Senator George R. 

 Peters of Rockville was the man. Mr. Doub fur- 

 ther states that Lucy V., the dam of Dorsey's Diana 

 bred by the Senator, was the beagle of her day in 

 Maryland and that she was a 14 inch beagle weigh- 

 ing 21 pounds. Mr. Doub goes on further and says 

 that to Captain Assheton we owe the original intro- 

 duction of the blue-ticked stock. Any one who 

 breeds beagles must have noticed that the color is 

 generally accompanied by over-size and lack of ear- 

 age. My theory is that the blue ticking comes from 

 the old blue spotted harrier or our native small- 

 eared foxhound, and that when puppies inherit the 

 color they also inherit the size and short ears of this 

 line of their ancestors. I want to breed to dogs that 

 are broken and have led their packs in the field and 

 that have dams and grand dams that are fielders. 

 Regarding size, I want a dog from 14 to I4I/2 

 inches, for in my experience I never saw a good 



