DOMESTIC DOGS. 535 
trail. From its small size, short legs, and rather heavy build, it is, however, 
necessarily slow. In hunting, beagles follow all the windings of the hare, and for 
the first part of the chase are far behind their quarry. Their perseverance is, 
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however, generally successful in the end; and there is no prettier sight for the 
lovers of sport than to watch a well-trained pack of beagles at work. 
With the cessation of its monotonous occupation has been 
brought to pass the practical extinction of the old English turnspit. 
These dogs were long-bodied, short-limbed animals, with the fore-feet everted, 
and were closely allied to the dachshund; but differed in being relatively taller, 
with a longer head, longer nose, straighter forehead, less bent fore-limbs, and a 
longer and thinner tail; the ears being small and placed relatively far back. In 
colour, the turnspit was generally black-and-tan. These dogs performed their task 
ina kind of wire barrel, somewhat like that in a squirrel-cage; and in England 
two of them were generally kept, which worked turn-and-turn. 
Under the title of dachshund, or badger-dog, the Germans include 
two distinct strains of long-bodied dogs with short and crooked legs, 
one of which presents these characters in a less marked degree than the other, and 
has also relatively larger ears. The breed figured in our illustration has a long 
cylinder-like body, supported on short and bent legs, the head and muzzle large, the 
drooping ears also large, the paws of great size and furnished with sharp claws, and 
the coat short and smooth. The fore-feet are markedly turned outwards, and the 
hind-feet have large dew-claws; while the tail is thick at the root, from which it 
rapidly tapers to the end, without any fringe. The colour varies, but is generally 
black-and-tan, although not unfrequently either tan or yellowish, and sometimes 
Turnspit. 
Dachshund. 
