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Beagles and Beagling 
(about J884) was one of the very active beagle 
fanciers of the country. Bannerman was a small 
dog and was used by bis American owner to coun¬ 
teract size. It will be remembered that the Crane 
Pack was kept to the uniform size of nine inches 
and when any of the dogs attained more height than 
that, they were promptly drafted out. Bannerman 
was over the Crane limit, but he was a direct 
descendent of Damper and that ilk which bred true 
to the nine inch mark for generations. It may be 
inferred from this, that Mr. Krueger’s importation 
of Bannerman was a well thought out plan, if the 
sole idea was to breed for smaller size. In this 
country Bannerman soon became a champion. His 
get were all lightly marked; that is, there was too 
much white and not a sufficient amount of the 
black and tan, or characteristic hound markings, 
and for this reason there was some objection to 
him, but as a direct influence, only one dog of his 
time was his peer. 
This dog was Frank Forest, owned by H. L. 
Kreuder, of Xanuet, X. Y. Champion Frank 
Forest, it seems, had the best bitches of the country 
sent to him, consequently his opportunities were 
somewhat better than Bannerman. Luck frequently 
plays its part in the breeding of dogs as it does in 
all things of life and thus it was with Frank Forest. 
Early in life he was successfully mated with a bitch 
called Sue Forest, a daughter of Comeroe, one of 
the Elmore strain and it is well known that all of 
the latter were field dogs; in fact, it was conceded to 
be a field strain pure and simple, the owners caring 
more for utility than they did for the preservation 
