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    Beagling
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    Beagling

    By C. B. Shepherd

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 12, 2016
    ISBN9781473355941
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      Beagling - C. B. Shepherd

      Beagles

      CHAPTER ONE

      THE HOUND

      MAY I preface my chapters on Beagling by saying that to me, and I believe to all true lovers of Beagling, it is not merely a blood sport, but a form of recreation and health-giving exercise for those who have the free use of their limbs, the like of which exists in no other form. The Beagler must be a hound-lover above everything. One to whom the cry of hounds is a tonic to which none other can compare and to whom their work comes first and the kill is just the conclusion, almost a regrettable one, to a day well spent. Besides the marvellous thrill of their music, and no other hounds can put up such a joyous chorus as they hunt, beagles have the advantage of showing us the actual process of hunting at close quarters. We see them race off after the hare just put up from her form, cast themselves at a check and work out an intricate line long after the hare has disappeared from view, till at last they work up to her again. As Mr. Jorrocks was wont to say, one whimper of hounds dispels all cares and worries. Let me quote from that great sporting writer, Nicholas Cox, who, writing in the late sixteen hundreds, thus closes the introduction to The Gentleman’s Recreation. I might much enlarge myself in the commendation of hunting but that I am loath to detain you too long from the knowledge of what will make a right and perfect Huntsman. I shall therefore thus conclude: No music can be more ravishingly delightful than a pack of hounds in full cry, to such a man whose heart and ears are so happy as to be set to the tune of such charming instruments. Though the Three Jolly Huntsmen of the ancient song hunted, I believe, on horseback, the concluding verse expresses the Beagler’s feelings on his return home from the hunt, with the emphasis on the last line.

      So they hunted and they holloed till

      the setting of the sun.

      And they’d nought to bring

      back home again

      When the hunting day was done.

      Then one unto the other said,

      "This hunting doesn’t pay,

      But we’ve poultered up and down

      a bit

      And had a rattling day."

      Points of the Beagle.

      The points of the Beagle differ little in essentials from those of the Foxhound, at least so far as the modern type of Beagle is concerned. The breeder’s keynote of perfection in a few years’ time will probably be a hound of 14 to 15 inches, which, if it had been large enough, would assuredly have been a foxhound. At present in choosing a Beagle for his points, you will look for a hound under 16 inches (to bring him within the Stud Book limit). Then start in front to see that he has really good sloping shoulders free from all lumpiness and a reasonable length of neck. In a bitch the neck should be really long and fine and, though heavier in the dog, should be free in both cases from fullness and coarseness.

      Now his forelegs. These should be dead straight and terminating in cat paws with the toes held well together and the bone of the leg carried down into the foot, so that there is not the slightest appearance of an ankle such as might look well on a greyhound. The bone of the forelegs must be large, from elbow to foot, so that a Beagle’s forelegs should give the appearance of being rather thicker than necessary, when compared with the forelegs of the dog world in general.

      Having satisfied ourselves that he is right so far as shoulders, neck, and forelegs are concerned, let us examine the hound’s chest. His ribs must be well sprung and really deep. Heart room is, perhaps, a Beagle’s most necessary qualification if his nose is good enough to keep him on the line. The chest should, therefore, extend an inch or rather more, below the point of the elbow, and with well-sprung ribs, this will give all the room required for lungs and heart. Next the ribs should be carried well back so that he is thoroughly well coupled. His back should be flat and short, and his loins really powerful, with the accompaniment of muscular quarters and with the hocks very near the ground.

      The stern should switch off a perfectly level spine at right angles and should be thick and powerful at the base. At ordinary times a healthy hound should carry it straight and perpendicular, or with the faintest suspicion of sickle curve over his back. I have left the head until the end, not because it is unimportant, but because a hound, otherwise good, always seems to have a good head. First it must be set on at an easy angle to the neck, neither too large, nor too small, but larger in the dog than in the bitch.

      Deep flews and a good length of muzzle give the true hound look, and this is completed by the benevolent eye, set rather wide, and the very large ear, hung low on the head.

      The eyes should be round and dark—usually brown—and the head should be sufficiently wide to accommodate the wide setting of the eyes. The Beagle, unlike the foxhound, has a pronounced stop, which with the width of the skull, gives him a cheery, affable expression, which the more demure-looking foxhound rather lacks. Apart from this glad to see you expression, he carries himself with all the dignity of a true hound, but beneath the surface there seems to be a sense of humour, which is, perhaps, to be expected in a small hound, though lacking in his larger cousin. Finally, see that he is not undershot and that his teeth are strong and even.

      Any hound colour suits the Beagle; white, black, and tan is probably the most popular, but no good hound is a bad colour—dark tan, harepie, lemon and white and blue tick, all have their admirers. Chocolate is not admired, certainly not in the Show ring.

      Whatever the colour, the stern must be tipped with white, as in the case of hounds of other breeds. The coat should be fine, close and short, and the ears fine in texture and their hair silky.

      Size.

      The size of Beagles is a matter for each

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