264 Forty Years Beagling 



hounds who fan out on the flanks of an eight-couple 

 pack. To see a good close working pack find and 

 drive to a kill, is indeed a privilege for any beagler 

 to watch. 



An eight-couple pack is usually worked in the 

 field by the master and two whips on foot ; and while 

 in competition the two-couple packs are allowed a 

 whip besides the master, one is seldom used. Only 

 once have I seen an eight-couple pack hunted from 

 horseback at a field trial, and that has done without 

 the help of whips by Arthur Little of the Wheatley, 

 at the National Beagle trials in 1920. 



In the following list of packs which have been 

 hunted as privately owned packs, competing at the 

 National and other beagle club trials where pack 

 stakes are held, it is not my intention to detract 

 from such pack men as James MacAleer, Dan 

 Summers, James P. Van Dyke, Frank S. Rader, 

 George Goodacre, Charles F. Brooke, Fred Horns, 

 Paul Jones and others, who have helped to make 

 beagle history in this country, even if they have 

 and start their two-couple packs only at field trials. 



