96 HORNS, HOLLOAS, DOG LANGUAGE 



cheer in 1795, for I possess a print of my grandfather's 

 so entitled, and bearing that date. It represents a 

 very roomily-clad huntsman capping on his hounds, 

 which are capitally drawn. He wears his hair long 

 and rides a grey with a tremendous crest. "Howitt 

 in. et f." is printed on the left corner of the margin. 

 " Hoick holloa " still remains a pleasant sound when 

 we are in difficulties, but it is one we seldom wish 

 to hear. 



" Elope forrard — to get hounds on." It is thus 

 printed in Mr. Smith's book, but it seems to me that 

 as a rule the initial E in the word is commonly dis- 

 carded, and that I hear the whippers-in of my acquaint- 

 ance cry, " Lope forrard, lope forrard," and " Lope lop, 

 lope lop," when they bring on tail hounds, or something 

 as near those sounds as I can represent by letters. 

 " Yoi over " and " Try back," the latter word pro- 

 nounced very broad, as it were " baick," let us say, 

 are unalterable, as " Talli-ho," and — hateful sound ! — 

 " Talli-ho-back." It is not likely that any other cry 

 will supersede " Who-whoop," which marks the proper 

 finish of the chase ; but if it be sounded over an open 

 earth, huntsmen have different cheers of encourage- 

 ment to excite their hounds to mark and satisfy them- 

 selves that their fox is there. One does like to see a 

 fox well marked ivJiere it is not imprudent for his safety 

 to allow it to he done ; and to see hounds tearing up 

 the earth, biting at the roots, and "making the sods 

 fly," is no small compensation for the want of blood. 



Beyond the hunting cheers and terms which have 

 been mentioned and should be known by the veriest 

 tyro, there are not many others about which we 



