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TXyTANY English hunting expressions are of French 

 origin, and were used by the Normans, who 

 were ardently devoted to the chase. " Tally ho ! " in 

 spite of its essentially British ring, is probably nothing 

 more than the old French cry, " Dans le taillis en 

 haut^'' " up in the brushwood," which rang o'er our 

 woodlands for many a long year after the battle of 

 Hastings had decided the fate of England. 



The Conqueror himself was particularly fond of 

 hunting, and most of our English monarchs, including 

 the present King, have at one time or other turned 

 their attention to this sport. 



William III was a keen follower of hounds, and is 

 said to have made it a point of honour never to be 

 outdone in any leap, however perilous. An adherent 

 of the Stuarts, Mr. Cherry by name, who was heart 

 and soul devoted to the exiled family, is said to have 

 taken advantage of this to form what was surely the 

 most pardonable plot ever devised against a king's life. 

 He made a practice of following the Royal hounds, 

 ever riding in the first flight, and took the most 

 desperate leaps, in the hope that the King might 

 break his neck in following him. One day, however, 

 he took a leap so imminently dangerous, that William, 



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