n[0 API'KNIHX. B. 



When any animal is killed before hounds, the death halloo is 

 invariably ivho-whoop ! 



When any animal turns on the hounds, he is at hay ! 



When a Stag is driven by hounds to water, he soils ! 



W^hen a Fox " " to ground, he eartlis ! 



When an Otter, after diving, breaks water, he vents I 



And, lastly, to correct some very common errors of parlance, 

 — A Horse never runs ; he walks, ambles, trots, paces, canters, 

 gallops. These are all his paces. 



A Horse is hy his sire, and out 0/ his dam. Not vice versd, as 

 the common phrase goes here. 



A maJe Horse is a staUion. 



A colleciion of Horses is a stud. The application of the latter 

 term to the male Horse, is not merely CT//^«?-squeamishness, but 

 sheer nonsense. 



The female of a Fox is a vixen ; of a Dog, a bitc?i, not a shit ; 

 and the use of the latter word is far the more objectionable of 

 the two, as implyine an improper consciousness. 



