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in this digressive allusion to the word, is to express my 

 hope and belief that I have not mis-spelt it. I conceive 

 that nothing but a misprint, and a repetition of the same 

 diabolical error of the press, can have given us so much 

 of tally-0, as I find in Mr. Smith's valuable Diary of a 

 Huntsman, which I have seen since the pre\dous chapter 

 went to press. We hear tye-ho ! for the deer ; so-ho ! 

 for the hare ; to-ho ! to the pointer, &c., &c. Sail-ho ! 

 is the cry from the mast head when a vessel is in sight. 

 The interjection "ho!" being, as I take it, an exclama- 

 tion indicative of surprise, and, at the same time, 

 signifying the presence of an object. In Mr. Smith's 

 glossary of hunting terms, we are told that " Hooi" is 

 " the vieza halloo, when tallij-0 is not heard, or zchen 

 hounds are at a check, and it is desirable to get them on ;" 

 and, in explanation of tally-0 itself, that, " if desirable 

 to halloo it loudly, it should be pronounced ta, a-le, o," 

 meaning, beyond doubt, ta, a, le-ho ! for we must expect 

 to hear of 'ounds, and 'orses, in the dialect of the cock- 

 ney, zvho 'ammers a?i 'ack along an 'ard road, to 'mit at 

 Hepping, from a man who would thus clip the Queen's 

 English, and rob the dear old tally-ho of the expressive 

 aspirate which was famihar to our infancy. To return 

 to halloos in general, your first view halloo having led 

 me a long way since I left you with hounds, drawing for 

 a fox, on a fine hunting morning. On the use of your 

 voice in the field, or covert, I should say, remember 



