. The beagle and the field trials. Beagle (Dog breed). CHAPTER I,. The Beagle—Formation of the First Club—Personnel of the Membership— Standard Adopted—Well-Known Breeders of the Beagle. A writer in a Boston newspaper recently claimed that the favorite lap-dog of Cleo- patra, 2,000 years ago, was a Beagle, and an eminent authority in the kennel world has stated that there is reason to believe that packs of Beagles were common in England at the time of the Eoman Conquest. Both statements admit of argument, but, however interest- ing such a discussion might prove to be, lack of space forbids en-
. The beagle and the field trials. Beagle (Dog breed). CHAPTER I,. The Beagle—Formation of the First Club—Personnel of the Membership— Standard Adopted—Well-Known Breeders of the Beagle. A writer in a Boston newspaper recently claimed that the favorite lap-dog of Cleo- patra, 2,000 years ago, was a Beagle, and an eminent authority in the kennel world has stated that there is reason to believe that packs of Beagles were common in England at the time of the Eoman Conquest. Both statements admit of argument, but, however interest- ing such a discussion might prove to be, lack of space forbids en- tering upon it here. Yet, of the great antiquity of this breed, there can be no doubt. In the days of early English literature. Beagles were well known. Chaucer and Shakespeare sing of them and the oldest books on sport describe them. Their origin and early history, however, is lost in obscurity, though there is no good reason to doubt that they were bred by selection from the Foxhound till the desired size and qualities were obtained. The first pack of which the dog-loving anti- quarian has found any trace is that of Queen Elizabeth, and even here truth and fiction are so intermingled that it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. That the Queen owned a pack of Pocket Beagles is easy to be- lieve, but that the dogs were so small that one could be put in a man's glove tests our credulity. However, these brief chapters are not to deal with prehistoric fancies or early English doggy history, but with the story of the Beagle in this country. The first Beagles were probably brought to America by sport- loving immigrants from England, who also brought with them. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Turpin, Bradford S. Baltimore, Md. , F. J. Skinner
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