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unwritten. With a gently rising glass and some 

 moisture on the ground you can generally depend 

 on scent being good, but there have been too 

 many exceptions under those conditions to make 

 it a rule. With a falling glass and half a gale 

 blowing, we do not expect to see hounds run, 

 but to our surprise they will sometimes run 

 faster on these occasions than when the weather 

 has been apparently favourable. Taking the 

 barometer as a means of indicating the day most 

 likely to give a good scent, I should choose it to 

 be rather low and rising. My experience leads 

 me to think that when the glass is very high or 

 low, or when it is actually falling, is the time 

 when in all probability scent will be bad. Please 

 observe, I make no rule and lay down no law. 



I am quite certain every fox has a different 

 scent ; and as each human being has his own 

 smell, why not the fox ^ You may be walking 

 with half a dozen other men, and your dog may 

 have loitered behind, but you will be very dis- 

 gusted with him, if you leave the others, and 

 when he comes to the spot where you parted 

 with your friends, he cannot detect his master's 

 smell from the others. The idea that we each 



