262 Forty Years Beagling 



from Bordeaux, France, from which place the 

 family had originally come. 



The only two packs which have been hunted in 

 this country, as subscription packs, were the Pied- 

 mont, under the guidance of Mr. Joseph Thomas 

 at Middleburg, Virginia, who sold most of them to 

 the Fanhall beagles in 1918, and a pack at Mount 

 Kisco, New York, started by Messrs. Harold 

 Minot and Page, just previous to the World War, 

 which killed their effort. Before going into the 

 details of American packs and their masters, I will 

 not dwell on the cost of, and how to maintain and 

 run a pack, which is so admirably described in the 

 "Trinity Foot Beagles." But I will say that due 

 to the lack of knowledge, independence of spirit, 

 or cost, there are no men in the United States who 

 know how to care for and maintain a pack com- 

 pared with the Englishmen who have handled some 

 of our foremost American packs, like Arthur Lit- 

 tle of the Wheatley; Joseph Powel of the Wolver; 

 John Dickinson of the Somerset; and Harry Wat- 

 son of Stoke Place fame, the breeder of Stoke 

 Place Sapper, first of the Belray, next of the Fair- 

 field and now of the White Oaks. 



Many of our most enthusiastic beaglers run a 

 two-couple pack at the various field trials where 

 pack competitions are held, and of necessity must 



