HORNS, HOLLOAS, DOG LANGUAGE 89 



years ago, is certainly true in the present daj". I have 

 a great friend who lives on the low hillside behind 

 this place, and not long ago I met him the day after 

 a run from a gorse in the valley below. " Didn't you 

 hear us roaring yesterday ? " he said. " Why couldn't 

 yez come and hunt the great fox that wint for New- 

 town ? " " But, man alive," I said, " couldn't you see 

 we were on another fox going bang in the other 

 direction? What the deuce was the good of keeping 

 on shouting ? You might have got the hounds off our 

 fox, if they had checked, with all that yelling. " Shure 

 that's what we wanted," he naively replied, " the other 

 was the lad we laid out for ye to hunt ; he'd have 

 given a great chase, and we'd had a great view of 

 ye entirely." 



If we reflect at all on the subject, I think we shall 

 conclude that one very seldom should be tempted to 

 give a holloa out hunting, and that we should never 

 do so without due consideration. If we see the fox 

 and hounds have checked, and if we are absolutely 

 certain it is our hunted fox, if also the huntsman 

 cannot see our hat held up in the air (which is better 

 for the hounds than any holloa), then we may " let 

 go " our holloa with a will ; but it must be remem- 

 bered that one never should holloa unless you can 

 get on to, or close to, the ground over which the fox 

 has passed before raising the voice. 



If a fox is viewed by one of the field at some distance 

 from hounds it must be borne in mind that though 

 he appears to be a run fox, he is not necessarily the 

 hunted fox. Hounds have a brace of foxes travelling 

 in front of them twice as often as any of us imagine. 



