232 Forty Years Beagling 



voiced beagle that is being evolved from ignorance 

 and Peterborough, is as different to the true beagle 

 as the ring of the old Liberty Bell today is to what 

 it was before it cracked. Some of the beagles of 

 today that run at the field trials are neither fish, 

 flesh, fowl nor even good red herring, as the old 

 country saying goes. They are neither hound nor 

 beagle, but terrier hounds. I know it is heresy to 

 write this, but what does all the short yapping and 

 squealing denote? It means that in trying to make 

 the beagle a foxhound, we make it into something 

 that is foreign to both. 



"The beaglers rave over Bangle. Why? Because 

 she is hound built; because she embodies in her 

 small make-up the presumed points of a foxhound. 

 But even the very men who are bringing about this 

 change from the old sweet type, say she is dog- 

 faced, lacks the softness of her sex, not quite beagle, 

 etc., etc. They do this because not having room to 

 find fault with her anatomy, they fall back on the 

 one 'something' they realize they have lost or are 

 losing— beagle type and expression. No greater 

 folly, or rather wrong to the true beagle was ever 

 perpetrated than the incorporation of the words 

 'a miniature foxhound' in the standard. They were 

 inserted by beaglers who did not realize their full 

 significance, and what has this blind leading the 



