14B The Sporting Dog 



rabbit-dog blood, are still following trails in the 

 pine thickets of that section. 



Another good little hound whose name appears 

 in modern pedigrees was Champion Ringwood. 

 One of the best bitches of her day was Champion 

 Lonely, whose name also frequently appears in 

 the recent editions of the studbook. 



Some five or six years ago there was in the 

 East a revival of interest in regular beagle packs. 

 It was accompanied by importations from Eng- 

 land, where these hounds are bred to a much 

 closer uniformity of appearance and quality than 

 on our side. Among the kennels which have 

 regular organization and which both exhibit on 

 the bench and use hounds in the field are the 

 Guyasuta (Messrs. McAleer and Johnston), the 

 Rock Ridge (Mr. Rockefeller), the Windholme 

 (Mr. Peters), the Somerset (Mr. Post), and the 

 Hempstead (Mr. Kernochan) packs in the neigh- 

 borhood of New York, and the Middlesex (Mr. 

 Higginson) beagles near Boston. Mr. Kernochan 

 died recently and his beagles were dispersed 

 before that event. The Guyasuta pack includes 

 Champion Freeland, one of the few winners of 

 beagle championships in the field. He was 

 sired by Florist, apparently the most valu- 

 able of recent importations. Other dogs im- 

 ported during this recent revival were Truman, 

 Primate, Fiddler, Orangeman, and Pilgrim. Mr. 



