Later History 
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The Windholme Beagles were successful during 
the early years of the present century, but short¬ 
lived. The Bel rays, coming some years later, were 
also quite a formidable aggregation, not only on the 
bench, but at field trials; and about this same period 
the Wheatleys came to the front and continued 
showing until about 1819 when the manager, 
Arthur Little, was compelled to relinquish his posi¬ 
tion on account of ill-health, after which as I 
previously stated, the dogs were scattered, most of 
them going to P. M. Chidester, of Pittsburgh, 
whose Pencraft Beagles were already gaining a 
reputation. Stoke Place Sapper was one of the 
importations of the Wheatley Kennels, but found 
a new home in Illinois, where he did well. During 
part of the last decade the Mt. Brilliant Beagles, 
owned by Louis Lee Haggin, of Lexington, Ky., 
-were prominent, but Mr. Haggin became interested 
in field trial pointers about this time and abandoned 
beagles after a short period of success. 
Looking- over the lists of kennels showing beagles 
in the East (some of which also ran their dogs n 
field trials), one finds that many of the fanciers who 
took up the breed were only in it as a passing hobby, 
as many of these wealthy young men with nothing 
else on their.hands, frequently take up fads, hence 
with the exception of a very few, little in the way 
of lasting good was accomplished by them in the 
way of breeding. Since the beginning of this 
century more than a dozen well known beagle ken¬ 
nels have been disbanded. Perhaps the fact that 
America entered into the World War has some 
hearing on the case, but I am more inclined to 
