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wonderfully prepotent dog and himself a good 
rabbiter, in fact, far above the ordinary. Marchboy 
was by Champion Barrister, a ten inch dog which 
was a remarkable fielder and never beaten on the 
bench. His dam was Primrose, but it is through 
Barrister that Bannerman inherits the tendency to 
reproduce small dogs, for Barrister's sire was none 
other than the redoutable Damper, previously 
referred to as the nine inch dog in the Crane pack. 
Barrister’s dam was Wanderer, also a small bitch 
and Hotspur and Littly, the sire and dam of Prim¬ 
rose were also of this type. Among other dogs 
found in the pedigree of Marchboy are Rachel, 
Matchless, Chancellor, Moorhen, Hopeful, Music, 
Charmer, Bugler, Skylark, Beauty, Priceless, Joyful 
and so on ad finitum. Coming to Bannermair s dam, 
which is Dewdrop, one of the Crane breeding, we 
find that she is by Damper, out of Pleasant, own 
sister to Precious, the bitch which won the Crystal 
Palace Cup and first and cup at Portsmouth. 
Damper sired among others, Pilgrim, Pealer, Har¬ 
mony, Rachel and Giant. The latter was considered 
by “Stonehenge” as the best beagle of his day. 
One of the early patrons of field trials was Daniel 
F. Summers, who bred working beagles in Pennsyl¬ 
vania for a number of years. Nothing was seen of 
Dan Summers at bench shows, or at least not in the 
way of showing, but his dogs made records for 
themselves in the actual competition where the little 
hound should really show, and that is in the field. 
Mr. Summers began running dogs in field trials 
about the year 1896, and was seen regularly for a 
