820 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



deep roar at view and my gun were heard almost 

 together, and the doe fell dead before us. 



Scent and its degrees are also very strange ! 

 It may exist to some extent in the air, sufficiently 

 so to make a hound fully aware that he is in the 

 precincts of deer or fox ; and yet the scent is 

 not of that particular description as to induce the 

 hound to ^^ fling" his tongue. 



I once stood in one of the thrown-out enclosures 

 of the New Forest, in a ride on the highest portion 

 of the immediately surrounding land, while Druid 

 was drawing for a deer. He had left me for some 

 time, and though I moved about, occasionally 

 speaking to him to '' draw on" from time to time, 

 yet he never appeared in any of the various 

 rides. On returning to my most elevated position, 

 after having resumed my place for some little 

 time, Druid came out of the wood to the spot 

 where he had first left me, and, wagging his long 

 and waving stern to greet me, he resumed the 

 look he always Avore when he Avas aware of the 

 proximity of doer, and, with a flourish of his stern 

 a^>'ain, dashed into the same quarter of the cover. 

 After a short absence, he came to me again, and 

 made a deliberate cast uj) the ride on either side 



