Hunting Cries and Notes on the Horn. 179 



is shouted by the huntsman to his assistants at a 

 distance when he thinks an Otter is " away " either 

 up or down stream. Hold hard! is used to keep 

 the forward whip or members of the Field back. 



As Colonel Anstruther-Thomson said of fox- 

 hunting, " Many huntsmen blow the same mono- 

 tonous note on the horn all day long without varia- 

 tion or meaning. 



Without returning to the elaborate horn-music of 

 the days of George Turbervile and his " Noble Art 

 of Venerie/' with his wonderful " Call for the com- 

 pany " and " Call for terriers gone to ground " — to 

 which latter, I fancy, it would prove a little diffi- 

 cult to persuade a modern terrier engaged in tackling 

 an Otter to respond — there is every reason why the 

 huntsman should let both hounds and Field know 

 precisely what is going on by means of his horn. 



When putting hounds to water he should blow a 



to call the attention 

 terriers, and ''coffee- 



single note 

 of hounds, 



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housers " alike to the fact that the day's sport is 

 commencing. This note he will also use to call 

 hounds to him when drawing. 



When on a drag he may occasionally double the 



horn 



TO — j ^ H^IL-p --^ : to show stragglers, 



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