ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



tumbling out to it. All hounds hate strug- 

 gling in thick covert, and are more or less 

 anxious to get away. But never be tempted 

 to use this note for any other purpose. If 

 you do, its charm is gone. You cannot, to 

 quote Lord Henry Bentinck again, lie to 

 your hounds with impunity. Indeed, in hunt- 

 ing a fox in the open you should hardly use 

 your horn at all. I am no advocate for much 

 horn ; as Mr Vyner says, in season it is like 

 a word : " How good it is " ; but when it 

 is blown I like it to give forth no uncer- 

 tain sound, that everyone may know what 

 is meant by it, hounds and all. If you are 

 always blowing your horn, whether you want 

 hounds or not, you might as well be playing 

 the concertina for all they will care for it. 

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