ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



and slip them. When you turn back drawing 

 a covert always let them know by a good 

 loud " Yooi over, try back! " They will work 

 all the better for you if you help them in 

 their little ways. When you have made up 

 your mind to go to a holloa, take your 

 hounds off their noses and travel along. Do 

 not, if you can help it, let them hunt again 

 till you have found out from the man who 

 holloaed exactly which way the fox really 

 went. He very likely turned him, and the 

 hounds may take it heel way: it is poor 

 consolation to be told by a grinning rustic, 

 after the hounds have settled with a good 

 cry, "They be a running back scent." It 

 is easier to strike the line heel way than 

 people think. Casting you may get on the 

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