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another dog* very highly valued by the field men, 
though I doubt if any of the breeders for bench 
types ever took advantage of his services. Champion 
Ringleader, owned by Jos. Lewis, then of Modus, 
Connecticut, was a bench show type. The same 
may be said of imported Bronwydd Boy and 
imported Florist, of which mention was made as 
being the two hounds which were offered at stud 
by their owner, J. L. Kernochan at a fee of $100 
each. Robino II and Robino III were bench dogs 
pure and simple. 
During the early years of the present century 
that grand little dog, Hempfield’s Little Dandy, 
owned by J. S. Cusson and R. B. Cole, of De Kalb, 
Illinois, was a very prominent winner and he soon 
became a most marvelous sire of field dogs. His 
services were sought by breeders from everywhere 
and he sired winner after winner and yet his owners 
offered him for the benefit of brother sportsmen 
at the remarkably low fee of $10. In this connec¬ 
tion I might observe that many of the beagle 
fanciers—those who really had the interests of the 
breed at heart—never placed an exorbitant fee 
upon their dogs. Louis Steffen, for instance, located 
in Milwaukee, Wis., who has been one of the most 
consistent of breeders, offered that good dog, 
Colonel Lee, at a $5 stud fee. 
Another hound which proved to be a tremendous 
influence upon the field bred beagle was Young 
Tippecanoe, a contemporary of Hempfield’s Little 
Dandy, owned by James McAleer, of Bellevue, Pa. 
Mr. McAleer still has this blood in his kennels and 
is breeding successfully from it through generation 
