ETIQUETTE 11 



recognise and pursue the scent of any particular 

 quarry. 



Puppies when they can run about are sent out 

 " to walk " with kind friends, chiefly farmers, 

 who rear them till they are old enough to be 

 brought into the hunt kennels. Those that will 

 be kept to join the pack are then selected, and 

 the others are " drafted." 



A " skirter " is a hound which will not pack 

 with the rest when running, but keeps rather 

 wide on one side, hoping to get a view of the fox. 



" Rounding " young hounds is removing the 

 superfluous lower portion of the ear-flap. 



" Stopping " an earth means stopping the fox 

 out during the night. 



" Putting-to " means doing the same thing in 

 the early morning. 



There are many little courtesies that help much 

 to good fellowship and are very generally observed 

 by all accustomed to hunt, but which may not 

 occur to a novice, and the breach of them is apt 

 to be rather irritating if it is not known that 

 ignorance is the cause of their being omitted. It 

 is, for instance, very annoying after getting off 

 one's horse to open a refractory gate, or by doing 

 a little "carpentering " to make feasible an other- 

 wise impracticable fence, to be left pirouetting on 

 one foot whilst you frantically make efforts to 

 put the other in the stirrup and mount your 

 excited horse, as your followers pour through the 

 way you have made plain before them, instead 

 of waiting a second till you are in the saddle 

 again, ready to speed once more after the flying 

 pack. The man who thus confers a boon upon 

 his comrades should have a kindly thought 



