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Beagles and Beagling 
Fiddler to the Round Plains. Then there was 
Fabian, a champion in the field and a sire of good 
ones, whose blood is still very prominent in some 
parts of the East. Florist also ranks very high as 
a sire and the same may be said of Leader III, 
Trueman and Oronsay. These dogs were of the 
typey kind that won on the bench. In the field they 
held their own, not perhaps in competition with 
some of the out-and-out field strains, when we 
consider qualities from every viewpoint, but they 
were dogs of a good combination type, consequently 
they had their vogue and were successful. Harry 
Peters, of Islip, N. Y., was also much interested in 
beagles about the time that Mr. Kernochan was 
showing his packs. Among the many importations 
that he made was the dog Bangle, which became 
quite popular at bench shows. 
A strain of wire-haired beagles was imported into 
this country along about in 1883, and for about 
twenty years thereafter were bred by J. W. Apple- 
ton, of Ipswich, Mass. Breeders did not take readily 
to this strain from which emanated both wire and 
smooth coated dogs, although two good dogs from 
the strain are still well remembered. One of these 
was Sommerset, owned by the Sommerset Beagles, 
which in the early years of the present century were 
quite prominent, and the other was Waldingfield’s 
Orator, which was a smooth-coated dog. Dogs 
from this strain were winners, both on the bench 
and in the field. This strain was known as 
the Pulbro Beagles, and their distinguishing 
quality was their sweet voices. Pulbro Crafty, a 
