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tlicnij now no more, — to post themselves at given 

 spots down wind to give me the ^^ gone away " of a 

 wideawake and stealthy fox. 



I refer to these things in order to deter eager 

 ridersj anxious for a gallop, from sitting in the 

 sulks on their horses, growling at the work thus 

 forced upon a master of hounds and his men. We 

 know the fox the hounds are on will show us no 

 sport in the open ; but stout as he may be in the 

 bushes, and unfitting, as his crafty stoutness may 

 unfit the hounds for a second fox, he must he stuck 

 to and hilled^ as a lesson to his fellows and his foes. 

 I have seen the mischief done by tactics of another 

 kind. 



As to the very common expression of '^ head- 

 ing a fox," it is far more easily imagined and 

 said than done. A good wild fox, who means 

 running^ may be headed in a wood; but if it is a 

 wood of considerable dimensions, he will take a turn 

 or two in cover, and as soon as he thinks he has a 

 good start of the hounds, he ivill make his point 

 for the open again, and if he wishes it he will 

 break cover under the legs of any fooPs horse who 

 has blundered into the very place, - of all others^ 

 where he ought not to be. It is different in a gorse 



