534 MODERN FARRIER. 



* Now let your huntsman throw in his hounds as 

 quietly as he can, and let the two whippers-in keep 

 wide of him on either hand, so that a single hound 

 may not escape them ; let them be attentive to his 

 halloo, and be ready to encourage or rate as that 

 directs ; he will, of course, draw up the wind, for 

 reasons which I shall give in another place. Now 

 if you can keep your brother sportsmen in order, 

 and put any discretion into them, you are in luck ; 

 they more frequently do harm than good ; if it be 

 possible, persuade those who wish to halloo the fox 

 off, to stand quiet under the cover side, and on no 

 account to halloo him too soon ; if they do, he most 

 certainl}^ will turn back again : could you entice 

 them all into the cover, your sport in all probability, 

 will not be the worse for it. 



' How well the hounds spread the cover ! the 

 huntsman you see is quite deserted, and his horse, 

 which so lately had a crowd at his heels, has not 

 now one attendant left. How steadily they draw ! 

 you hear not a single hound yet none are idle. Is 

 not this better than to be subject to continual disap- 

 pointment, from the eternal babbling of unsteady 

 hounds ? 



"..... See ! bow they range 

 Dispers'd, how busily this way and that 

 They cross, examining with curious nose 

 Each hkely haunt. Hark ! on the drag I hear 

 Their doubtful notes, precluding to a cry 

 More nobly full, and swell'd with every mouth." 



Somerville. 



How musical their tongues ! — Now as they get 

 nearer to him, how the chorus fills ! Hark ! he is 

 found. — Now, where are all your sorrows, and your 

 cares, ye gloomy souls ! Or v/here your pains and 

 aches, ye complaining ones ! One halloo has dispel- 

 led them all. — What a crash they make ! and echo 

 seemingly takes pleasure to repeat the sound. The 

 astonished traveller forsakes his road, lured by its 



