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which, it may generally be observed, will be a line 

 of country where he would avoid being seen, unless 

 there is some local cause for it. By attending to 

 this, he will be prepared for a check in many 

 instances a mile before he gets to it, if he knows 

 the country, and keeps his eyes open ; he must, to 

 do this, have only half an eye for the pack, and the 

 other eye and half beyond it ; and he will also soon 

 discover whether the fox is one he has hunted 

 before by the line he takes, and other peculiarities, — 

 even the ring he takes in cover, the rack he uses in 

 fences, — which observations are of great assistance 

 a second time, but more particularly so later in the 

 season, for a whole litter of young foxes have been 

 known to run the same line of country. . . . 



Different men have different ways of drawing 

 covers, but there can be no doubt that the best way 

 to make a pack draw well is to go steadily through 

 covers with hounds, where it is possible ; if not, 

 then to take the best side-wind of it first. When a 

 cover is supposed to be drawn, a huntsman will do 

 well to notice whether he has got all his hounds. 

 If any old ones are left back, he may depend on it 

 there is some good cause — no doubt a stroke of a 

 fox or drags keeps them — and a little patience, and 

 even encouragement by name, may be thought 

 right, particularly if they happen to be the hounds 

 that usually find, and in all packs there are a few of 

 that sort. 



Thofnas Smith. 



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HAT are other sports, compared with this, 

 which is full of enthusiasm ? 



Beck ford. 



