HORNS, HOLLOAS, DOG LANGUAGE 95 



Tom Smith's " Eclawick, eadawick — try, try ! " I once 

 heard this term pronounced by a reader of the book 

 with the accent on the last syllable, and he remarked 

 that he "never in his life heard a huntsman sing out 

 anything ending with 'wick.'" So here the phonetic 

 spelling would appear to be wrong, and perhaps 

 " Edoick " or " Eloick " comes a bit nearer the spelling 

 of a very familiar sound. Mr. Sponge's " Yor-geot " 

 is Surtees' spelling of what Mr. Smith prints " Yo- 

 geote ; when hounds have overrun the scent, or he 

 wants them to come back to him." 



But the cry has often come to my ears as if it were 

 almost spelt " Yeow-yeowte." " Yo-hote, yo-hote 

 there ; to make hounds hunt at a check," has also 

 been printed and sounded " Yo-doit, yo-doit," and is 

 often abbreviated to "Y'ut there, y'ut there," which 

 is as near as I can get to sounds that I have heard ; 

 while I recollect a professional huntsman whose 

 encouragement was plainly " Get there," also usually 

 naming a hound, as " Get there. Riflemen — get there ! " 

 which was often followed by " Hey, that's it ! that's 

 it ! " It was unusual, and we thought it unworkman- 

 like. But I do like to hear a hound cheered by 

 name when he makes a hit, and I'll swear the hound 

 loves it too. 



The " Yo-o-o-o-i there " of some well-known hunts- 

 men is most thrilling and enthralling, and the scream 

 — sometimes printed " Hoop," but utterly impossible 

 to spell, when the line is hit off after a check, is the 

 most intensely pleasurable sound one hears when in 

 chase. 



" Hoick holloa " I know was used as a huntsman's 



