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no signal for you to do the same ; on the contrary, 

 it is incumbent upon you to remain where you are, 

 for the fox may have doubled short to the right or 

 left immediately in front of where you stand, and 

 scent is a thing under ordinary circumstances 

 difficult enough for those delicate and carefully-bred 

 noses to detect without the " added weight ' of a 

 foiled line being laid upon them, as would be the 

 case were your now steaming horse to cross it. 



Never, therefore, follow a huntsman when casting — 

 always excepting with your eye — or, at all events, 

 never do so until the ground has been "made good " 

 on to which you purpose changing your position. 

 When, however, the huntsman has, from cattle 

 stains or what not, failed to recover his fox's line in 

 the near vicinity of where hounds checked, and 

 makes a long forward or wide scientific cast, it is, I 

 think legitimate foryou(;zo^ pressing upon him, mind) 

 to yet keep the pack sufficiently within your reach 

 to enable you, should they suddenly again hit off the 

 scent and run, to shortly regain such a position as 

 would allow 3^ou to see them do so, which is, or 

 should be, the object of your presence in the hunting 

 field. But, as I before remarked, be sure that the 

 ground on which you are about to advance will not 

 be required for any future operations of hounds and 

 huntsman. 



