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You have interchanged greetings with your ac- 

 quaintance, and the hounds are now trotted off 

 towards the covert they are destined to draw. As 

 soon as they are thrown into it, post yourself at that 

 spot at which, in your opinion, the fox is most hkely 

 to break, and which the remainder of the field have 

 abstained from approaching. Should your judgment 

 prove correct, and he — the fox which hounds are now 

 running — attempt to break covert near you, at once 

 holloa "Tally ho" in his face. By so doing you will 

 show that you know a fox from a hare, and, what is of 

 more importance, probably postpone indefinitely the 

 more risky part of his pursuit, that is, in the open. 



The fox has, however, we will surmise, broken 

 covert at length in some different direction, and that 

 you yourself have got well away with the glad throng 

 in his wake. I may here add in parenthesis, that 

 should hounds, through your own negligence, or from 

 whatsoever other cause, get clear away from covert 

 without you, that it is usual to swear the huntsman 

 never blew his horn, and you may, at the same time, 

 threaten to withdraw your subscription, provided 

 you have been reckless enough to have ever given 

 one. Recollect also, that if this plea is over-ruled, 

 you can always assert, " no matter the pace, or the 

 distance," that hounds " never really ran a yard." 

 Fences, alas! must now occasionally be encountered ; 



