Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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A MEET OF HARRIERS IN SUSSEX. 228
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GROUP OF MR. A GORHAMS ROUGH-COATED BEAGLES.Photograph by Russell and So)is. CHAPTER XXII.THE BEAGLE. BY G. S. LOWE. Pour down, like a flood from the hills, brave boys, On the wings of the wind The merry beagles fly ; Dull sorrow lags behind : Ye shrill echoes reply,Catch each flying sound, and double our joys. Wm. Somerville. THERE is nothing to surpass the beautyof the Beagle either to see him on theflags of his kennel or in unravellinga difficulty on the line of a dodging hare.In neatness he is really the little model ofa Foxhound. He is, of course, finer, butwith the length of neck so perfect in thebigger hound, the little shoulders of thesame pattern, legs and feet the same, andthe typical quarters and second thighs.Then how quick he is in his casts ! and whenhe is fairly on a line, of course he sticks toit, as the saying is, like a beagle. Beagles have been carefully preserved fora great many years, and in some cases theyhave been in families for almost centuries.In the heredita

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