234 THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. 



recheat thus : — w- ^-^ -^ — ^-^ v_. -^ — 



When hounds were at fault and the huntsman 

 wanted the lymer, he blew a recheat and a mote, 



If any person caught a view of the stag when 

 hounds were at fault, he blew a mote and recheat for 

 the view, and two motes to call up the hounds. 



These calls are in themselves tolerably simple and 

 easily to be understood, but when eight or ten excited 

 sportsmen tried to blow them, one after the other 

 according to the precedence of each, they must have 

 led to endless confusion, especially if any question 

 arose as to precedence. One can realise how it may 

 have come to pass that the black St. Huberts, 

 which, if they were at all like their modern 

 descendants, the bloodhounds, were extraordinarily 

 shy and nervous, utterly declined to cast themselves 

 at a check, sitting down and doing nothing, so that 

 Charles IX. said of them in contempt that they were 

 most useful for anyone with the gout, but not for a 

 man who wanted to shorten the life of a stag. 



The forlong was blown by a man who was thrown 

 out, and he seems to have consoled himself with as 

 much of a tune as the horn was capable of : trout, 

 trout, trout, trout, trourouroutrout, trout, and then a 



recheat, thus : , , — , ^^ ^-^ ^^ 



— w-^ -^ — ^^ -^ ^^ — Anyone hearing him 

 played the parfit, or perfect, to show him where the 

 hounds were : — , — ^-^ -^ i — , — ^^ ^^j — "-^ 



