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question again, but I see that Mr. Fellows and Mr. 

 Muss-Arnolt are after the foxhound standard, and 

 so I took courage from them." 



Then Mr. H. L. Kreuder of Nanuet, New York, 

 gets back at Mr. Buckstaff as follows: "In your 

 valuable paper [Forest and Stream, December 

 24th, 1894] of the 15th instant, I read an article 

 written by Mr. G. A. Buckstaff on the relative 

 meriting qualities of speed and nose in beagles. 



"I regret that I cannot admit being entirely car- 

 ried away with Mr. B.'s argument. He says the 

 aim among breeders who desire field-trial winners 

 is to 'get speed at all hazards and get nose if you 

 can,' and this is not the kind of a dog to get rabbits 

 with. 



"Now, to substantiate his argument, Mr. B. says 

 he sent his dog Royal Rover to the National Beagle 

 Club trials this fall as an object lesson. He says 

 that in the first series Rover defeated Nell R., and 

 from all reports did it easily, and she won the derby. 

 He must have possessed considerable speed to do 

 that. Right here I want to call Mr. B.'s attention 

 to his first mistake. The judges were working on 

 the spotting system and as a positive fact, I know 

 the}'- did not make the mistake of announcing win- 

 ners of heats, or in any way give their opinions as 

 to the respective merits or demerits of any dog 



