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his own method on these occasions, but personally I 

 think it is the best plan to send a whip in pursuit of 

 the hound, and not allowing the others to get on the 

 line, to gallop them forward. Scent of hound and 

 fox get mixed up, and if a pack is allowed to hunt this 

 double scent, the younger members are hable to develop 

 the trick of cur-hunting, a habit which may take some 

 trouble to eradicate. 



Except on very rare occasions checks must occur 

 in the course of a run, and if the pack in finishing their 

 cast do not obey the huntsman's behest in his endeavour 

 to recover the line, the whip must put them on. It 

 may be a cur has chased the fox, or a flock of sheep 

 wheeled across the scent, or again it may be a piece of 

 bare fallow with the promise of better ground beyond. 

 In any of these events the huntsman neither wants 

 hounds to puzzle out the line, nor to cast them, but 

 desires to lift them forward, so that the whip must 

 hurry them on. 



The mistake which the ignorant whip makes is in 

 not recognising the different methods to employ when 

 hounds are being cast or Lifted. When a huntsman 

 is casting his hounds, he is drawing them over groimd 

 on which he thinks it hkely they will recover the scent, 

 and if they are not then allowed to put their heads 

 down for a second it is impossible for them to find the 

 lost clue. This is a time when a whip should be extra 

 careful not to hurry the pack, and if he notices some 

 rehable old stager feathering, he may be left to investi- 

 gate further and the fact reported to the huntsman. 

 The intelligence should be conveyed quietly with the 

 name of the hound and then the huntsman can act as 

 he thinks best. 



