Field Trial Beagle Type 181 



strong. But their specialty seems to be in their in- 

 chnation to hunt, and that in a business-like manner 

 from the moment they are slipped until they are 

 again coupled, the hunting being of the kind termed 

 *heady,' not an inch of ground being left untried, 

 unless a trail is sooner struck, in which latter case 

 it is followed at a good rate of speed to a start and 

 with an unusually rattling drive; to use the ex- 

 pression of a recent writer, they work like spaniels, 

 quarter like pointers, drive like greyhounds and 

 have voices that wake the melodious echoes, and al- 

 though Mr. Card is not breeding the field-trial kind, 

 the object that called out the letter by you was to 

 buy a dog for field-trial purposes from him. 



"That the field trials have lost us much and 

 gained us some is patent to all; that inbreeding 

 may have done worse is also probable, but to go 

 away from the standard as laid down and say the 

 Rowett stock is incorrect in type, is more than any 

 breeder of experience would dare to successfully 

 argue and carry in practice, however much he might 

 wish to run a beagle for five or six minutes at a 

 time for the sake of the dollars or the rabbits. 



"Although I doubt if Mr. Card shoots over his 

 beagles, I have yet to hear of a gunshy dog or bitch 

 from his kennels, and it may be owing to the fact 

 that there are no 'negro' hunters in the neighbor- 



