Early History 
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cially those who kept their hounds for little more 
than to lead them around during show week in 
Madison Square Garden, were inclined to pass up 
these Maryland beagles with a sneer, but I might 
say right at this point, were it not for such men 
of this type who kept up the strain as they did, 
our beagle of today would be nothing more than a 
show’ dog. The only unfortunate part of it all is 
that Messrs. Doub and Dorsey did not exploit their 
strain more, in order to let the beagle fanciers at 
large understand what manner of dogs these 
descendents of the Rowetts really were. 
There was another strain descended from the 
Row r etts, however, which was exploited on the 
bench. The strain was bred and shown by Daniel 
O'Shea, of London, Ontario, wdio was an expert 
in the show business and made a champion of 
Rattler, a dog which in the real sense might not 
have been a flyer from a bench show point of 
view, but he was always shown to the best advan¬ 
tage and so gained his championship honors in a 
short time. 
The Rowett blood began to spread about the 
country despite the restrictions that were put upon 
it and New England obtained a goodly supply 
through Champion Fitz-Hugh Lee and Bowman. 
Both dogs were successful as sires, Fitz-Hugh Lee 
being particularly so. Another dog appeared about 
this time and one destined to make quite a bit of 
history. This was the imported Champion Banner- 
man, which came from the kennel of J. Crane, of 
Dorsetshire. The dog was imported by A. C. 
Krueger, of Wrightsville, Pa., who at that period 
