252 Forty Years Beagling 



Parson, Destiny, and going a generation lower, Ch. 

 Primate. Take the bench show winners of to-day, 

 the champions Bangle, Oronsay, Matron, Primate, 

 Fiddler, Trmiian and Robino 2nd, the latter half 

 Enghsh blood. What pack can to-day win over the 

 team of homids shown by the Windholme Kennels? 

 What pack could win over the Hempstead beagles 

 when they were in their prime ? In fact what Amer- 

 ican pack has ever won? When I say American- 

 bred I mean American blood. Champion Primate, 

 for example, I call English-bred, for, although bred 

 in this country, he is of the most direct English par- 

 entage. I am an American and shall always be, 

 but I think there are some things which our Eng- 

 lish cousins across the pond do better than we do; 

 and among others they produce better hounds, both 

 beagles and foxhounds. I remember some years 

 ago, Mr. Kernochan had a little correspondence in 

 one of the papers with a believer in the 'pop-eyed' 

 beagle, who claimed that Mr. Kernochan and the 

 English hounds had done little good to beagles in 

 America. I think time has proved him wrong. 

 There are very few hounds winning on the bench 

 today w^ho have not in their veins a very strong 

 tinge of Enghsh blood, and most of them clean 

 bred." 



