Speed Versus Nose 111 



''Picking up the turns I understand is the turn 

 on the track where the rabbit turns or picks up the 

 trail, if the dog runs by the turn. Now, what busi- 

 ness had Rover to pick up even a small part of these 

 turns? Was Buckshot so far behind that Rover 

 picked up the turn before Buckshot arrived, or was 

 Buckshot ahead, and Rover came up and picked 

 up the turns before Buckshot could? It's all a mys- 

 tery how Rover could at any time be either in the 

 lead or pick up losses first. Now, I don't mean to 

 insinuate or intimate that judges did not decide 

 these races as fairly as they possibly could, for I 

 have seen several heats between very fast dogs and 

 dogs somewhat slower and know how hard it is to 

 suit all views of the case. If it ever were my mis- 

 fortune to be a judge at a trial I should have the 

 Vindsplitter' run alone for a while, and see what 

 kind of a show he would make. I think many of our 

 beagle men and some of oui^ judges would be sur- 

 prised at the difference he would show in work done 

 that way as compared with work done in a race 

 with a slower dog. Before the game is afoot he 

 has not the time or ability to take an old trail 

 and work the rabbit up. He has got to go bird-dog 

 fashion and jump his rabbit, and when he overruns 

 he has not the help of the slower dog to aid him pick 

 it up. He becomes 'foxey,' when hunting with a 



