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Beagles and Beagling 
brought fees of $100 and $50, respectively. These 
were patronized mostly by breeders of bench dogs, 
however. 
Field trials began to get more numerous from 
year to year and beagle fanciers did not find it such 
a difficult matter to start dogs in field competition, 
for in nearly every locality a club was eventually 
organized and by the time of the late World War 
the beagle field trial game was at its height. There 
was a temporary slump during the war, but imme¬ 
diately after that the interest in the breed became 
greater than ever. Ohio alone holds three or four 
fall trials each year and the same prevails in prac¬ 
tically all of the eastern and middle states. 
It was in 1899 that the Waldingfield Beagles won 
with Orator, one of the dogs of the wire-haired 
strain, to which reference was made in the previous 
chapter. The sire and dam of Orator were Pulboro 
Crafty and Cinderella. Crafty was not used at stud 
to the extent that his merits warranted, otherwise 
he might have had a number of winners fully as 
good as Orator to his credit. 
No doubt, while the interest in beagles has been 
constantly growing, the greatest activities took place 
from 1919 to 1922, and the season of 1923 is now 
coming on apace as I write. Beaglers have sprung- 
up every where. Many swear by their own strains, 
though they are not averse to trying new blood 
when they are shown that such a new cross will 
be of benefit. 
Looking over the record of 1921 for instance, 
we find something like twenty clubs holding trials 
and while I have not scrutinized the list of winners 
