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atmosphere of an early fall morning was a deep 

 entrancing draught of the elixir of life, to a hard, 

 keen terrier hound. 



"Many of these gentlemen in the game have been 

 led away by reading about cleanness of eye and 

 feet and hound body, and 'built like a foxhound,' 

 until they conceived the idea that the men who loved 

 a beagle because it was a little hound 'all its own,' 

 were old fogies, who, all combined had not the up- 

 to-date green-grass experience of a sure-enough 

 hunter with his 'tops' in the stirrups. 



"No greater curse to beagle type in America was 

 ever invented than the drag. It develops and en- 

 courages a speedy hound and a class of followers 

 who have not the patience nor the innate love of 

 hound sport to fully appreciate the intricate work- 

 ing out of a delicate line in a thick bit of cover or 

 open brake, where puss has made a fling. 



"If one likes to ride to hounds let him essay the 

 manly sport of following the foxhound and harrier, 

 hounds that can carry him along and over a country 

 that will try the steel that is in him. But the beagle 

 is a foot hound and as such, while possessing char- 

 acteristics which are recognized as hound proper- 

 ties, also demands certain formation and traits 

 which bring him into closer touch with man. The 

 clean limbed, clean throated, clean shouldered, hard 



