900 HUNTING TEEMS. 



Kennel. Where a fox lays all day in cover. 



Line holders. Hounds which will not go a yard beyond 



the scent. 

 Left-handed. A hunting pun on hounds that are not 



always right. 

 Lifting. When a huntsman carries the pack forward 



from an indifferent, or no scent, to a place the fox is 



hoped *o have more recently passed, or to a view 



halloo. It is an expedient found needful where the 



field is large, and unruly, and impatient, oftener than 



good sportsmen approve.* 

 Laid up. When a vixen fox has had cubs she is said to 



have laid up. 

 Metal. When hounds fly for a short distance on a 



wrong scent, or without one, it is said to be " all 



metal." 

 Moving scent. When hounds get on a scent that is 



fresher than a drag, it is called a moving scent ; that 



is, the scent of a fox which lias been disturbed by 



travelling. 

 Mobbing a /ox Is when foot passengers, or foolish 



* The late Sir Kichard Sutton, Master of the Quorn, used to say that 

 he liked "to stick to the band and keep hold of the bridle," that is to 

 say, make his pack hold to the line of the fox as long as they could ; but 

 there were times when he could not resist the temptation of a sure 

 *' holloa," and off he would start at a tremendous pace, for he was 

 always a bruising rider, with a blast or two upon his "little merry- 

 toned horn " which he had the art of blowing better than other people. 

 To his intimate friends he used to excuse himself for these occasional 

 outbreaks by quoting a saying of his old huntsman Goosey (late the 

 Duke of Rutland's) for whose opinion on hunting matters he had a 

 great respect "I take leave to say, sir, a fox is a very quick animal, 

 and you must make haste after him during some part of the day, or 

 you will not catch him." Letter from Captain Percy Williams, 

 Master of the Rufford Hounds, to the Editor. 



