TO HUNTSMEN 



When you come to the first check it is 

 almost a certainty that the fox has turned 

 right or left. Of course, if a good one, he 

 may turn again and make his original point, 

 so do not sit still. Try and keep the field 

 off the hounds, and encourage them to try, 

 up wind at first if possible : the fox has 

 most likely turned down wind, but the 

 hounds will almost swing their own cast 

 unaided up wind ; and if the fox has turned 

 in this direction and they hit him off, he is 

 yours ; nothing but an open drain can save 

 him. Meanwhile, cast your eye well for- 

 ward and down wind, and see if you can 

 see the fox or anything suggestive, such 

 as a man running, sheep running, or having 

 run together, to show where he is gone. 

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