. The dogs of Great Britain, America, and other countries. Their breeding, training, and management in health and disease, comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on the dog. Dog. [from old catalog]. 66 DOMESTICATED HUNTING-DOGS. not tired in trailing along the road from the kennel to the hunting- field and back again. The average hight of these may be taken at 10 inches, but their bodies are disproportionately lengthened. Patience and perseverance are still more necessary in these hounds than in their larger brethren, and without them they soon lose their hare, as they mu
. The dogs of Great Britain, America, and other countries. Their breeding, training, and management in health and disease, comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on the dog. Dog. [from old catalog]. 66 DOMESTICATED HUNTING-DOGS. not tired in trailing along the road from the kennel to the hunting- field and back again. The average hight of these may be taken at 10 inches, but their bodies are disproportionately lengthened. Patience and perseverance are still more necessary in these hounds than in their larger brethren, and without them they soon lose their hare, as they must be content to hunt her at a pace with which a man can readily keep up on foot, horses being quite out of place with such a diminutive pack. A pack of rabbit-beagles, the property of Mr. Crane, of South- over House, England, we believe to contain the best "patterns" we have ever known. We have seen them on a cold bad scenting. Fig. 10.—RABBIT BEAGLES, GIANT AND RINGLET. day work up a rabbit and run him in the most extraordinary man- ner, and although the nature of the ground compelled the pack to run almost in Indian file, and thus to carry a very narrow line of scent, if they threw it up, it was but for a moment. Mr. Crane's standard is 9 in., and every little hound is absolutely perfect. We saw but one hound at all differing from his companions, a little black-tanned one. This one on the flags we should have drafted, but when we saw him in his work we quite forgave him for being of a conspicuous color. Giant (see portrait) was perhaps the very best of the pack, a black-white-and-tanned doghound, always at work, and never wrong. He has a capital tongue, and plenty of it. The bitch, Ringlet, has the most beautiful points we have ever ffeen, and is a fit companion for her mate, Giant. Damper, Dutch-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustr
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