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are a brace, — three are a leash. 



are a couple, — three are a 

 couple and a half. 



Two Grouse, 

 " Pheasants, 

 " Partridge, 

 " Quail, 

 " Hares, 

 " Leverets, 

 Two Woodcock, 

 " Snipe, 



" Wild-fowl of all kinds, 

 " Plover, and Shore Birds, 

 " Rabbits, 



And the applying these terms vice versa is a bad sporting 

 blunder. All large game, as Deer, Swans, Geese, IJerons, are 

 numbered numerically, as one, two, three, &c. 

 Two Hounds, \ 



" Harriers, > are a couple, — three are a hurdle. 

 " Beagles, ) 

 Two Pointers, 

 •' Setters, 

 " Spaniels, 

 " Greyhounds, 

 " Terriers, 

 All other dogs are reckoned numerically. 

 By a pack of hounds, five-and-twenty couple is generally under- 

 stood, though it is not usual to take out, except where the woods 

 are very large and dense, above eighteen or twenty couple. 

 When a Stag breaks covert the cry is tayho ! 



" Fox " " talliho ! whoop f 



" Hare, found sitting with Harriers, tantaro ! 

 " " " with Greyhounds, soho ! 



To make Pointers, or Sktters, stand, toho ! 



drop to shot, charge ! 

 come behind, heel ! 

 careful, steady ! 

 rise from the charge, hold up ! 

 " hunt for killed game, seek dead I 

 when found, fitch ! 



are a hrace, — three are a leash. 



