142 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



" Tally-ho " versus " Tally-0 "— Mr. Smith's Glossary— Drawing Coverts 

 — Up or down wind — Instance of an up-wind draw in a Spinney — Getting 

 away with a Fox — The Burst — Pressing him — Advantage of a Start to 

 the Fox — Mr. Smith's Idea of a Fox's Knowledge of Scent — Covert side — 

 " CofFee-housing" — The Number of Hounds for an effective Pack— Number 

 in the Field — The great Mr. Meynell, with a Hundred Couples out — Success 

 of such a Pack — Killing above Ground, and Digging — Drawing over Foxes 

 — Getting settled to one — "Ware Riot" — Mischief of Interference — Hare 

 and Fox on the same Line — Lawful Assistance, when admissible and ad- 

 vantageous — A quick find — Liability to Riot in along draw Blank — Punish- 

 ment of Hounds — 'A Day in Herts. — Average Sport — The find — "Gone 

 away" — The First Ten Minutes — A Huntsman in his proper Place; how to 

 keep it — Varieties of Soil — A Check— Eye to Hounds, and last Recovery — 

 Forward again — Racing for the lead — Over-riding Hounds — Settling to 

 \ Business — Hunting and Running — Hunting a Fox, not riding him down — 

 A View in Chase — The Thick of the thing — A Second Check at the Plough 

 Teams — Headed or not? — Huntsman's head required — Forward again and 

 again — The Field in high Feather — A sinking Fox — " Hang those Footmen, 

 how they holloa ! " — A fair Finish — Whoo whoop ! This Run compared 

 with a better — Double Casts with divided Pack — The forward Principle, 

 the Rule of Fox-hunting — Drains — Going home — The Time for all Things — 

 Retiu-n to Kennel — Efficacy of Hounds — Mr. Smith's Breed of Foxes that 

 can beat any Pack — Condition everything, and everything depending on 

 " System of Kennel." 



Let us fancy ourselves prepared to take the field 

 on some fine day in November — we will not invoke 

 the aid of " a southerly wind and a cloudy sky," which 

 no longer " proclaim a hunting morning ;" — they might 

 have done of yore, but are now out of date. Light 

 clouds, just enough to intercept the "garish eye of day," 

 without betokening rain or storms, such as veil the 

 vaulted canopy above us in one tint of sober grey, and 

 impart to tli£ earth beneath them a mellow and sub- 

 dued tone of light, varied only by the impulse of a 

 northern breeze, which, in itself, is but just sufficient to 



