CHAPTER VI 



SPEED VERSUS NOSE 



DISCUSSIONS of type, breeding, etc., 

 having been dwelt upon for a period of 

 some years, the ever-ready discussion of 

 the difference between speed and nose, voice, etc., 

 cropped up in the early Nineties and was as much 

 a thorn in the sides of the pros and cons, of those 

 days as it is in the modern beagler of today, if what 

 follows is any criterion. 



A gentleman who signs himself "Comedy," and 

 who lived at Maiden, Massachusetts, gives a lot of 

 interesting information and enters into many dis- 

 cussions. In referring to a previous correspondent, 

 he replies in Forest and Stream of October, 1894, 

 by saying: "I did not think of again writing on 

 this matter, but the letter of your correspondent 

 in a late issue sets me going again. He concludes 

 his letter with the hope that he will hear more from 

 his friends. Setting aside that hope, some other 

 parts of his letter would probably have brought me 

 out. 



"He challenges his friends who do not believe he 



