234 Forty Years Beagling 



"It does not mean the speed of the foxhound, 

 for the beagle is a foot hound, therefore if you 

 produce a hound that a good healthy man in fair 

 condition cannot keep in sight on foot, you are 

 producing a beagle that is a miniature 'harrier,' 

 nowadays a term for anything that isn't a real sure- 

 enough foxhound. 



"I lay the present inconsistencies of the breed to 

 the clamor for speed for which the field trials are 

 responsible. Field trials are good and necessary, 

 perhaps, but there is no getting around the fact 

 that while they have not changed the rabbit they 

 have changed the face of the beagle. The bugaboo 

 of the goggle eye and domed skull, extremes and 

 degeneracies of good old beagle attributes, has 

 scared breeders too far in the other direction. Let 

 us hark back a bit and preserve some more beagle 

 character before it is lost to us forever." 



D. E. B. O'Nair harks in immediately and 

 backs "Huul" up in great shape when he says: "If 

 ever there was a beagle or a beagler on the right 

 trail, and on the trail that for the last few years but 

 very few beagle breeders have persistently and 

 stubbornly followed, it is yom* correspondent 

 *Huul.' It certainly is time for one so able as he 

 to lead the pack on the correct trail. I have gone 

 on record as one trying to do what he could, but 



