TO HUNTSMEN 



can do then is to use your discretion. I 

 remember a season or two ago, after hav- 

 ing come a considerable way, the hounds 

 threw up among a perfect sea of greasy 

 wheat-fields, in which there seemed to be 

 positively no scent at all. The orthodox 

 casts having produced no result, I noticed 

 there was one grass field about a mile and 

 a half ahead — an oasis in the desert. I 

 thought : " Well, the fox is lost anyhow, 

 but if by good luck he has crossed that 

 field, the hounds will show a line." I 

 cantered on, and they did show a line, with 

 the result that we were able to keep on 

 after the fox and eventually kill him in a 

 neighbouring country. 



When you come to a covert let your 

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