Potentially stupid newbie question

[Mr. Red]

I had been referring to when the methods were exclusive to the derived class, but considering that in my would-be program the derived classes mostly just redefine functions already present in the base class, the first method is better.  I was just whipping up a quick test program with an unsophisticated hierarchy and didn't think to include the base class's version of the function too.  Thank you for your help!