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delinquents, who will be indebted to you for your 

 trouble. 



It would have been, I dare sa}^ more gratifying 

 to your vanity, and pleasant enough, to boot, had 

 you sailed away with, and hunted that little pack 

 yourself; but " the huntsman's holloa must be main- 

 tained," as Beckford, I believe, says, even if by 

 endeavouring to do so you or I may individually 

 find ourselves absolutely the last of a scattered field, 

 instead of being in the enviable position styled "alone 

 with hounds." Should you, however, from any cause 

 fail to effect your object of stopping them, hasten 

 to where the body of the pack are, and acquaint a 

 whipper-in at once where you last saw the divided 

 portion of it, and also the direction in which it was 

 then pointing. 



Still one word more, for I must not close my note 

 book without adding a few lines on the subject of 

 view holloas. 



If hounds are running a fox in covert, and you 

 view one cross a riding therein, or break away, you 

 had better in the ^rs^ instance not holloa at all unless 

 convinced that it is the same fox hounds are running, 

 and in the second, having holloa'd him " away " 

 sufficiently clearly to catch the huntsman's ear, be 

 silent, unless by his responding horn you know he 

 means, if possible, to get the pack away on that 



