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-Of greyhounds, two make a brace ; of hounds, a couple ; of 

 greyhounds, three make a leash ; of hounds, a couple and half. 

 They say, let slip a greyhound ; and, cast-off a hound. The 

 string wherein a greyhound is led, is called a leash ; and that 

 of a hound, a lyome. The greyhound has his collaj, and the 

 bound his couples. We say a kennel of hounds, and a pack of 

 beagles. 



11. The following terms and phrases ar v more immediately 

 used in the progress of the sport itself. When the hounds, 

 being cast-off, and finding the scent of some game, begin xo open 

 and cry, they are said to challenge ; when they are too busy ere 

 the scent be good, they are said to babble ; when too busy 

 where the scent is good, to bawl ; when they fun it endwiw 

 orderly, holding in together merrily, and making it good, they are 

 said to be in full cry ; when they run along without opening at all, 

 it is called, running mute ; when spaniels open in the string, or a 

 greyhound in the course, they are said to lapse ; when beagles 

 bark and cry at their prey, they are said to yearn ; when the dogs 

 hit the scent the contrary way, they are said to draw amiss ; when 

 they take fresh scent and quit the former chase for a new one, it 

 is called hunting change ; when they hunt the game by the heel 

 or tra.-k, they are said to hunt counter ; when the chase goes off, 

 and returns again, traversing the same ground, it is called hunt- 

 ing the foil ; when the dogs run at a whole herd of deer, instead 

 of a single one, it is called running riot; dogs set in readiness 

 where the game is expected to come by, and cast-off after the 

 other hounds are passed, are called a relay. If they be cast-off 

 ere the other dogs come up, it is called vountlay ; when, finding 

 where the chase has been, they make a proffer to enter, but 

 return, it is called a blemish ; a lesson on the horn to encourage 

 the hounds, is named a call, or recheat ; that blown at the death of 

 a deer, is called the m^rt ; the part belonging to the dogs of any 

 chase they have killed, is the reward ; they say, take off a deer's 

 skin ; strip or case a hare, fox, and all sorts of vermin ; which is 

 Jone by beginning at the snout, and turning the skin over the 

 ars down to .he tail. 



