ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



When the pack have finished their cast, 

 then, and not till then, go to them : do not 

 stand and blow; whisper a word of en- 

 couragement in their ears, and cast them, 

 on the best scenting ground you can see, 

 in a body in front of you. You will be able 

 to keep the field off their backs much 

 better in this way than if you started off 

 jumping with the pack at your horse's tail 

 and all the hard-riding fools of the field 

 mixed up with them. If the assisted up- 

 wind cast and the down-wind cast both end 

 in silence, it looks bad ; but always remem- 

 ber that if your down-wind cast is a wide 

 one the fox may have gone to ground short 

 of it, or you may have cast over his line 



owing to a bit of bad scenting. All you 

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