Early History 
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but sure, occasionally carried to the field in a pair 
of panniers on a horse's back; often an object of 
ridicule at an early period of the chase, but rarely 
failing to accomplish their object before the day 
closed, ‘the puzzling pack unraveling wile by wile, 
maze within maze.’ It was often the work of two 
or three hours to accomplish this ; but it was seldom, 
in spite of her speed, her shifts and her doublings, 
that the hare did not fall a victim to her pursuers. 
“The slowness of their pace gradually caused 
them to be almost totally discontinued, until very 
lately, and especially in the royal park at Windsor, 
they have again been introduced. Generally speak¬ 
ing, they have all the strength and endurance which 
is necessary to ensure their killing their game, and 
are much fleeter than their diminutive size would 
indicate. Formerly considerable fancy and even 
judgment used to be exercised in the breeding of 
these dogs. They were curiously distinguished by 
the names of ‘deep-flewed/ or ‘shallow-flewed,' in 
proportion as they had the depending upper lip of 
the southern, or the sharper muzzle and more con¬ 
tracted lip of the northern dogs. The shallow- 
flewed were the swiftest and the deep-flewed the 
stoutest and the surest, and their music the most 
pleasant. The wire-haired heagle was considered as 
the stouter and the better dog/' 
The more pedantic student will even go farther 
back than the days of the Tudors for the origin 
of the beagle. Some writers assuming that a dog 
known as the ‘‘Kenet" in the days of King Canute 
and Edward the Confessor is the beagle of today. 
Whether it was or not, can scarcely affect the little 
