230 Forty Years Beagling 



being too long, was found upon measurement to be 

 31 inches from tip of nose to root of tail, and that 

 the judge had, as many others, been fooled by his 

 appearance. The judge replies that he was not 

 fooled but that in comparison, because anything 

 else would not do on that occasion. 



A writer named "Huul" then comes along and 

 assails some breeders, some importers of English 

 beagles and some men who were trying to adopt the 

 drag hunt, and some of the writers harked in to 

 him, all of whom were trying to improve the type 

 at that time, saying: "It would seem as if the 

 beaglers who had been cold trailing on the scent 

 of trouble for some time, are getting closer to the 

 game, for signs are not wanting of a revolutionary 

 spirit in favor of the true little beagle hound in dis- 

 tinction to the little Peterborough foxhound-beagle. 

 Looking back over the experience of many years, 

 I find in a show like Boston and New York that 

 very much of the old beagle character has been lost, 

 due in a measure to the 'riding element' in the bea- 

 glers' community, if I may use this term to dis- 

 tinguish a new element which has, through the in- 

 fluence of position and dollars, completely changed 

 the beagle from a soft, engaging mild animal with 

 a beautiful mellow, deep-throated note of most 

 pleasing volume, whose blend on the damp, dewy 



