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" Ga-a-t away ! Des-pe-rate ! ga-a-t away, ga-a-t 

 away ! you-on, you-on ! cup, cup ! " But instead 

 of this, when the hounds are running riot, they 

 are often desperately exerting themselves by stand- 

 ing up in their stirrups and bawling, " War hare, 

 war hare ! get on there ! get away ! " which, 

 besides being of no use, the young hounds get so 

 used to hear it, that they take no notice of it ; 

 and at a distance, say the other side of the cover, 

 is mistaken by men and hounds, too, for a view- 

 halloo. Hounds are often seen listening to it, 

 and men even often call out, " Hark ! halloo ! " 

 And when these clever fellows fancy they know 

 the hounds that were guilty of riot, and see them 

 in the open probably half an hour afterwards, 

 they ride at them, intending to cut them in two 

 almost, when they either hit or ride over some 

 other hound ; and even when they hit the right, 

 the hound does not know what it was for. But 

 one often sees another foolish thing done. When 

 hounds are at a check or cold-hunting, a whipper-in 

 has not till then been able to get at a hound which 

 has been running riot, and takes the opportunity 

 to give him a cut ; the consequence is, that the 

 cry of this hound will instantly make the hunting 

 hounds throw up their heads toward it, and often 

 they do not get their noses down again in a hurry. 

 Indeed, some sly old hounds will drop their sterns. 



