CHAPTER III 
Suggestion for Beginners—A Rabbit Hunt 
With Beagles 
1 1 A HIS chapter is intended for the beginner; he 
“*■ who feels the love of the chase deep down in 
his consciousness and who enjoys the form of sport 
in which dogs participate. The novice to whom 1 
am addressing these lines has probably been on a 
rabbit hunt or two, has seen dogs work, perhaps, 
though the knowledge thus acquired of the real 
qualities of the different kinds of rabbit dogs may 
be very limited. But his ambition to own real, 
rabbit hounds has been kindled and he has resolved 
to become the owner of one of a pair of dogs. 
Perhaps he may have a friend who is interested in 
rabbit hunting and from him g'ain the rudimentary 
knowledge. As like as not his information may 
come from an interested source and thus his first 
venture in the ownership of dogs may go wrong. 
In this connection a case came to me recently. The 
writer, a lad of about seventeen, wrote as follows: 
“I always like rabbit hunting and last winter I went 
out several times. The man who hunted with me 
had two dogs that he called ‘beadles.’ They were 
black and tan and stood about twenty-six inches 
high. I want to get some good rabbit hounds, but 
I have been told since, that this man with whom 
I hunted had plain ordinary ‘pot licker’ hounds with 
no breeding and that no beagle (I heard the correct 
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