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him in some spot where there is a 
brook or spring handy and take him 
over once in a while and let him have 
a drink. 
The more you take a pup into the 
woods and work him, the better it is. 
A half-hour every day is better than 
all day one day a week, but as I have 
said before, don’t tire the pup on these 
training trips. After a little, the pup 
will be good for a half-day’s hunt and 
later he will stand a full day’s hunt 
and not get tired. 
You must remember that the pup 
gets his education in the woods and 
the more time and patience that you 
use in taking the pup to school, the 
better hunting dog he will make. 
After you have the pup well trained 
and you have spent many a pleasant 
day in the woods with gun and dog, 
and perhaps have entered him at some 
field trial, then if you should look 
back at the time you spent in training 
him, you will agree with me that it 
was time well spent. If I could own 
only one dog, it would be a _ beagle, 
but if I could own two dogs, they 
| would be a pair of beagles. 
I have spoken of going into the 
woods with a gun and dog and I do 
not wish to have you who are reading 
this article think that I kill all the 
rabbits that my dogs start—in fact, 
I seldom shoot at a rabbit. I have 
been out into the woods over two 
hundred times in the last two years 
and I don’t think I have killed fifteen 
rabbits. I enjoy getting out into the 
woods the best in October, when there 
is a frost in the air and the foliage is 
turning. 
“The work of Nature is wonderful to 
behold, 
When it turns-the leaf of the maple 
from green into red and gold.” 
I wish you all could listen to the 
music of the hounds and hear their 
sweet voices on the trail. There is a 
note of joy in their voices when they 
start the rabbit and with it they 
gradually go out of hearing. Wait! 
And in a few minutes you will hear 
them in the distance coming back; as 
they get nearer, you can hear their 
voices as the tenors and baritones get 
in on the chorus. This is about the 
time that you will see the rabbit go 
by and in a few moments along come 
the dogs singing their own sweet song. 
That’s when I think life is worth 
living. 
I like to hear one dog sing, but I 
much prefer the chorus of two or three 
dogs. I enjoy standing on a stump 
or wall and listen to the song of the 
pack as they follow the trail. I like 
to watch the busy little fellows at 
work on a trail, but it is the music 
that I enjoy the best. 
It will identify you. 
If you are situated so that you can 
only keep one dog, get two or three 
of your friends interested and in this 
way there would be enough for a 
small pack and each one of you would 
be sneaking your pup out the back way 
to give him a little special training 
so that the next time you and your 
friends take the dogs into the woods, 
your dog will be leading the pack. 
If memory serves me right, it was 
an article in FOREST AND STREAM 
(about twenty years ago) on the 
beagle that influenced me in buying a 
beagle and I have never regretted that 
first investment. Since then, I have 
spent many a happy day in the woods 
with my dogs. A little trip into the 
country with a dog will do anyone a 
lot of good—it is a great tonic, bene- 
ficial to the mind as well as the body. 
Don’t expect a young dog to learn 
it all in a week or a month. Some 
dogs will learn faster than others, and 
a lot of times the dog that is slow to 
learn will make the best hunter. Take 
plenty of time in training a pup and 
eventually you will have a dog that 
you will be proud of. 
I hope that all who read this article 
at some time in the near future will 
be the proud owners of a good dog 
that they have raised and trained 
themselves. If you go out into the 
woods some day with a friend who 
owns a good beagle, it will only be a 
question of time before you have a 
beagle of your own and some day, 
when your friends are a-field with you, 
it will make you throw out your chest 
if they should happen to hear some 
one say, “What a fine little hunter 
and what a nice voice your beagle 
has!” 
There are over twenty beagle clubs 
in this country that hold field trials 
every Fall and at the Central Beagle 
Club’s trials last Fall, there were 138 
dogs entered. The advent of these 
trials has helped the popularity of the 
beagle and there are more and better 
dogs as the result of these contests 
than ever before. 
It costs only from $2.00 to $5.00 a 
year to become a member of one of 
these clubs. Many good sportsmen 
take their vacations in the Fall by at- 
tending these trials with their dogs and 
find there thoroughly enjoyable events. 
Good fellowship predominates and the 
stranger is always met with the glad- 
hand. Get an entry blank from the 
secretary of one of these clubs and 
after you have been a _ full-fledged 
owner of a beagle or two, do not hesi- 
tate to enter your dogs and be one of 
the boys and I can assure you you 
will receive a hearty welcome. If you 
do not own a beagle now, get busy and 
start training and let ws see you at 
the trials in the Fall. 
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