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down the wind halloos should never be used too often, and 

 thej are only necessary to induce the tail hounds to press 

 forward. Hounds that are well trained seldom require en- 

 couragement. 



Halloo forward is decidedly a necessary one, but should 

 never be used until a fox is found, and then they will fly to 

 it. Gone away is a halloo to signify that a fox breaks 

 cover, and of course is only used on that occasion, and ought 

 to be given loudly, so that those gentlemen may hear it who 

 remain behind to assist hounds when they leave the cover. 



When a fox is killed hounds should eat him ravenously : 

 he should be flung across the branch of a tree, if there is 

 one at hand, and the hounds allowed to bay at him for some 

 minutes before he is thrown among them : it will teach 

 them the meaning of a tally-ho, and learn them to fly 

 rapidly to it, and make them more eager ; besides, it will 

 afford time for all the pack to congregate, and also recover 

 theii" wind, and consequently will enable them to eat him 

 more readily. 



In parts of the country where foxes are scarce, bag-foxes 

 are frequently had recourse to, but they seldom afford good 

 sport. There are many objections to this amusement. In the 

 first place, the scent of them is unlike to other foxes ; it is 

 too good, or in other words too strong, and is apt to make 

 dogs idle, and has, in the second place, a tendency to make 

 hounds extremely wild. When dogs are accustomed to hunt 

 bag-foxes, they generally know what they are going to do before 

 they begin, and then they are so riotous that they will run at 

 any game or animal which may happen to come in their way. 

 A fox that has been long kept in a small place, and after- 

 wards carried out in a bag, is likely to be strongly tainted 

 by his own ordure ; and for want of his natural food and 

 proper exercise, his system is weak and his limbs cramped, 



