100 FACT AGAINST FICTIOK. 



onlij^ it might have lost the fox tliTougli tlie slieep, 

 and no run been obtained. As it was, foTcsiglit had 

 fore warned, and a brilliant day with a '^kill" was 

 the consequence. 



There is a great fault observable in many hunts- 

 men and masters of hounds, and this is, the 

 constant desire to play on their horns, as if in- 

 struments for music alone, whereas the horn ought 

 only to be used to hounds when the instantaneous 

 attendance of the pack upon their huntsman was 

 urgently required. Also, there should be two calls 

 upon the hunting-horn, kept perfectly distinct from 

 each other J the one a single note to call the hounds, 

 the other the doubled and trebled note for the 

 field — to tell gentlemen, servants, and all who may 

 be interested, that the fox was ^^ gone away," or 

 that he had changed quarters in the cover. The 

 first Lord Fitzhardinge used to set every fox in 

 the Berkeley Vale on foot, to the detriment of a 

 second find, by tooting continually on his horn. 

 This tooting behind, while the huntsman with his 

 horn and halloa was getting the hounds together 

 before, did infinite mischief; and many a time had 

 the gamekeepers asked me ^Ho ask his Lordship 

 not to blow so much," because liis liorn throughout 



