98 Forty Years Beagling 



"Now for the Royal Rover-Buckshot race. Who 

 'decided' that Rover had the best nose of the brace? 

 That was not the opinion of the judges, and no one 

 else had any right to make any decision and no one 

 else did make any. The facts of the case are that 

 Buckshot showed fully as good nose and fully as 

 good hunting sense as Rover, and far greater speed. 

 But his speed was not so great that he outran his 

 nose. In the race he led most of the time, picked 

 out the majority of the turns, and taking into con- 

 sideration all the desirable qualities that go to make 

 up the hunting beagle, was an easy winner. 



"Mr. Buckstaff's statements which he makes as 

 facts, and on which he relies to prove his case, are 

 not facts at all, and any argument based on them 

 necessarily falls to the ground and is unworthy 

 of consideration. I have not the pleasure of Mr. 

 Buckstaff's acquaintance, but nevertheless I hop^ 

 he will accept my congratulations on his election to 

 the State Legislature and my earnest hope that his 

 speeches and arguments in that body may rest on 

 facts and not on imagination." 



Mr. George F. Reed, of Barton, Vermont, 

 goes a little more fully into the question of this race, 

 in particular regarding speed and nose, and says: 

 "I have read Forest and Stream for a long term of 

 vears, and I have not taken much of your valuable 



