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should in my opinion, work like a 
pointer, until he has struck his scent; 
then instead of drawing carefully up 
tense and rigid he should do the reverse. 
He should loosen up and go away with 
it, as a rabbit “runs” and continue to 
leave scent in a long continuing line or 
trail, where the bird “remains” and the 
bird dog has no other alternative but 
to “draw up” and point. His is not a 
moving scent. He locates it and takes 
a stand called “point” for you to see. 
You can’t “stand” a rabbit, he doesn’t 
stand, so you can’t draw up on him 
only as you run him down. 
The beagle should be a thorough 
ground searcher, and a close worker. 
His actions should resemble the well- 
trained bird dog. He should have style 
and class when he is finding game or 
scent. When he has “found” his scent 
or game he should immediately take on 
animation to its highest extreme and 
“oo away” fast and true. You will find 
that a dog that works his game by 
quartering and snappy circling, when he 
comes to “a loss” will “catch” his scent 
or game quicker than with some system, 
where the indifferent hunter or the 
“sweet will hunter” will keep right on 
at the “checks” and pick it up (if he is 
lucky, and some are extremely lucky, 
especially at field trials) beyond the 
“ce ” 
gap. 
HE thus bridges it over and goes on 
with it while the real hunter, the 
honest hunter, has come to a loss. 
Where the bunny turned and has 
stopped to circle and quarter, starting 
with a small circle and each cast being 
a little wider until perhaps the next 
circle includes his line of scent and then 
he is away again. Of course the un- 
suspecting person or the one that never 
gets all there is to beagling, will tell 
you how so and so came in or led. That 
is why judges should follow very close 
and look out for the “gap jumper” and 
I have seen some good or “lucky gap 
jumpers” bring home the bacon. Those 
birds forget to touch second base. But 
sometimes the “draw” is open to the gap 
jumper and he goes on and on and 
would never come back if the real 
hunter didn’t bark on the trail again 
and bring him back. There are just as 
many aspiring beagles as there are 
aspiring citizens, real second story men, 
disguised in citizens’ clothes. 
A beagle should be as fast as his 
nose, no faster. There is a lot of “nose 
versus speed” going on. If a beagle is 
faster than his nose, he is a liar, for no 
dog can follow a trail faster than his 
nose will take him. We do have what 
are termed liars, but they soon prove 
their vocation. A beagle should be 
fast, the faster the better, with a nose 
that will take him down the line surely 
and at a loss will swing at top speed, 
cast without letting up and hit his line 
It will identify you. 
again and away all in the same speed. 
The kind of beagle we are trying to 
breed to-day is one that can tell you the 
age of a trail, the condition of it, etc. 
I had a side hill, heavily wooded, close 
to my kennel at one time and had 
hunted it very thoroughly day after 
day with some twenty different dogs at 
different times and knew pretty thor- 
oughly that there were not many rab- 
bits in there. But an acquaintance of 
mine, who owned one beagle, took to 
running there for practice for his 
hound. ' 
IS dog was what I call a “noisy” 
hound. He would drop him down 
in this wood and he would immediately 
start, bark and run incessantly. Cold 
trails, cross trails, all looked good. On 
coming in by my place he would say. 
“There are a lot of rabbits up there,” 
and I said, “by the sound of your dog 
there must be at least five hundred.” 
One rabbit in a small woods can track 
and retrack it up so much that a “bab- 
bler” or “noisy” dog will get confused. 
Barking and running at top speed does 
not mean anything to the real beagle. 
The unsuspecting person thinks a lot 
of noise and wild rushing through the 
bushes makes a beagle hound, but the 
real dog wants scent that is “fresh 
laid” and 999/1000 fine, the pure quill, 
then let ’em blat. 
A real hound will tell you by good 
English that the rabbit was here a few 
moments ago, and will take you along 
and tell you how far and at what rate 
he has progressed and where he intends 
to go, and when he comes to a loss he 
will shut up until he has found his 
trail again and goes on reporting back 
every step of the way; that he is hotter 
and hotter, that he has lost again and 
now on, or maybe no further sound 
after a long pause, he has holed up. 
HAD occasion at a field trial once 
to see something I had longed to 
see. Two bitches were down in a run. 
Game was hard to find. It was hot and 
dry. Some of the spectators kicked out 
a rabbit and “marked.” ‘“Tallyho” 
they call. The judges (2) had the dogs 
picked up and brought over to the 
marked trail where the rabbit had gone 
some five minutes before. (A scared 
rabbit leaves very little scent. This 
has been proven). The dogs were “put 
on” and the one went away with it 
fast and furious, eager in every move- 
ment but not a sound, not a whimper, 
until down the way about two hundred 
feet she opened (barked) and soon 
again, and then into a furious drive. 
The other dog followed on but gave no 
indication of his knowledge if he had it. 
The trail at first was a “cold” trail 
and shouldn’t have been voiced on, and 
if it had continued cold the hound 
would have come in after running it a 
reasonable distance. If it got good and 
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