Speed Versus Nose 95 



pack that will start game and in an eager, pushing, 

 crowding, bustling way (but holding the trail ac- 

 curately) bring the game to the gun in five, ten or 

 fifteen minutes, with pulse beating from 150 to 200, 

 your cap on the back of your head or the ground, 

 every nerve strained, your hand a-clutching the 

 gun, your eyes bursting from the sockets in your 

 endeavors to catch a glimpse and a shot at the 

 thoroughly alarmed rabbit going for dear life 50 

 feet ahead of your speedy pack with 'speedy' noses? 

 Whew ! I had to stop here for a moment, as I had 

 mentally followed this pack, and was in about the 

 condition 'Canada Gray' must have been in when 

 he called a halt for water at Oxford. 



"Now, I contend that this hue and cry about 

 speed without nose is all 'poppycock,' and as a mat- 

 ter of fact, it is really a physical impossibility. I, 

 for one, will boldly say that I want the dog with 

 speed and nose, and I believe that 95% of those 

 who use beagles are in the same mind. Let us wait 

 and see what others have to say." 



Mr. Bradford S. Turpin, one of the judges, gives 

 his opinion of Mr. Buckstaff's letter as follows: 



"I have just read Mr. Buckstaff's letter entitled 

 'Shall it be Speed or Nose?' In reply let me say, 

 that it shall be neither one nor the other, but a com- 

 bination of both. Speed and nose, those are qual- 



