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blind led to? A lot of nondescript looking little 

 hounds with long and short bodies, short ears, clean 

 throats, and small terrier eyes and their concomi- 

 tant — metallic voices. 



"Like a miniature foxhound did not mean that 

 breeders were to blindly follow the foxhound type 

 to the utter extinction of the lovable eye ; the deep 

 flew; the 'music bag'; or suspicion of dewlap, the 

 silken textured, folding lengthy ear, that associates 

 with the deep mellow contraltos or the trebles of 

 limpid sweetness ; of expression that beams through 

 deep brown eyes that speak love, intelligence and 

 sweetness of disposition. But rather does it refer 

 merely to those details of anatomy which every 

 well-made hound must possess to stand the work 

 it is called upon to do, the short back, strong loin, 

 hound coat that sheds the morning dew, the sloping 

 shoulder, the round sohd bone, cat feet, hard pads, 

 and hound pluck. No beagle loses in expression 

 by the possession of these good and serviceable 

 anatomical features. Neither does it mean that 

 we must have 'rounded' beagles, or that the slight 

 dome of skull must be flattened out, thus losing, 

 in conjunction with the low-set, dehcate ear, that 

 exquisite refinement of skull formation to be seen 

 in beagles which still retain the old Rowett blood 

 and the Elmores. 



