AN EXPECTANT TEAM. 
PROPERTY OF MR. SIDNEY WOODIWISS. 
Photograph by T. Fail. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. 
THE DACHSHUND. 
BY 
JOHN F. 
SAYER. 
“Six years ago I brought him down, 
A baby dog from London Town, 
Round his small throat of black and brown 
A ribbon blue, 
And vouched by glorious renown 
A Dachshund true.” 
ERSONS unfamiliar with the sporting 
P properties of this long-bodied breed 
are apt to refer smilingly to the 
Dachshund as “ the dog that is sold by the 
yard,” and few even of those who know 
him give credit to the debonair little fellow 
for the grim work which he is intended 
to perform in doing battle with the vicious 
badger in its lair. Dachshund means 
“badger dog,” and it is a title fairly and 
squarely earned in his native Germany. 
Good things are said to be done up in 
small parcels, and the saying is eminently 
true of the little dog under notice. Whether 
he be kept for sport or merely as a com- 
panion, he is to my mind the best dog of 
his size. Given proper training, he will per- 
form the duties of several sporting breeds 
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—MatTTHEW ARNOLD. 
rolled into one. Possessing a wonderful 
nose, combined with remarkable steadiness, 
his kind will work out the coldest scent, and 
once fairly on the line they will give plenty 
of music and get over the ground at a pace 
almost incredible. Dachshunds hunt well in 
a pack, and, though it is not their recognised 
vocation, they can be successfully used on 
hare, on fox, and any form of vermin that 
wears a furry coat. But his legitimate 
work is directed against the badger, in 
locating the brock under ground, worrying 
and driving him into his innermost earth, 
and there holding him until dug out. 
It is no part of his calling to come to 
close grips, though that often happens in 
the confined space in which he has to work. 
In this position a badger with his powerful 
