BEAGLES WERE TINY DOGS.
IsttrafsnstiTS CflnUM of AawsesSt Br*»*i *l]S* Conld Bo C*rri«jl la I >: <* - ' S OloVs* I ' ;• <5 Bin fa no question that the beagle tk a vary ,016) breed. Early Roman accounts of England contain references ts tLe beagle, even by neme. Cooks pabJSshed from about 1580 to lilO &*■ iorioe several varieties of hounds, m-'-e*n^fcg W| \th4"litt 1 whith usiy be carried* In v * man's gk»ve." 'i'i.Mb the miniature 'hound was extremelypopular at the time was evident. fri.in (. Queen Elizabeth; keeping a pack which , were, also, said to be small enough to put in a glove, saya the Country Life in America. This statement is frequently ridi.jufcxr when it is not understood that gloves of that period were not the present-day kind, but gauntlets reaching nearly to the elbow. What become of those glove beagles we may ssrmife from what we know of the results of later attempts to maintain packs of beagles of eight to ton inches high, the result after some years, being weak puppies that fall short of the fine qualities of the little hunting dog when they are grown up.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 23 June 1904, Page 6
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186BEAGLES WERE TINY DOGS. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 23 June 1904, Page 6
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