Field Trial Beagle Type 195 



writer heard a gentleman remark at the New York 

 Show (1898) : 'I run my hounds according to 

 speed, not size.' 



"It is true, dogs like men possess different and 

 varying temperaments, and some beagles there 

 always will be that will develop greater speed than 

 their mate of equal size; but that is the exception, 

 not the rule, and there is no reason why fifteen or 

 twenty couple of 10, 12 or 15 -inch beagles can not 

 be bred that will work, trail and pack well to- 

 gether, but with very little difference in their pace. 



"The writer has among his beagles a small 12- 

 inch bitch, cobby and well put together, of pure 

 Rowett strain, that will run a perfect streak and 

 out-foot all his other hounds. It is safe to assume 

 that breeding this bitch with a well-built dog of like 

 tendencj^, and continuing in such breeding would 

 develop a cobby, but remarkably fast strain of 

 hounds. But, is this desirable? Would it not be 

 better to take some careful-working, moderate- 

 running, true-trailing, full and musical-voiced spec- 

 imens and breed them, thoughtfully and with good 

 judgment, seeking to develop all these finer quali- 

 ties and characteristics which it would be utterly 

 impossible to get in a much more rapid hound? 



"It seems reasonable to assume that a dog, slash- 

 ing right and left, keyed up to the highest possible 



