CONTENTS. XV 



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 Effec- 

 tive Pack— Number in the Field — The Great ]\[r. Meynell, with 

 a Hundred Couples out — Success of such a Pack— Killing above 

 Ground, and Digging— Drawing over Foxes- Getting settled to 

 one — "Ware Piiot'' — Mischief of Interference— Hare and Fox 

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

 vantageous — A Quick Find — Liability to Eiot in a long draw 

 Blank— Punishment of Hounds — A Day in Herts — Average 

 Sport — The Find— "Gone away"— The First Ten ]\Iinutes— A 

 Huntsman in his Proper Place ; how to keep it — Varieties of 

 Soil — A Check— Eye to Hounds, and Last Recovery — Forward 

 again — Eacing for the Lead — Over-riding Hounds— Settling to 

 Business — Hunting and Ptunning— 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 1 — Hunts- 

 man's Head required — Forward again and again — The Field 

 in High Feather — A Sinking Yox — " Hang those Footmen, how 

 they holloa !" — A Fair Finish— Whoo whoop ! This Run com- 

 pared with a better — Double Casts with Divided Pack — The 

 Forward Principle, the Rule of Fox-hunting — Drains — Going 

 Home— The Time for all Things— Return 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" . . . . . .133 



CHAPTER X. 



System of Kennel — Baths — Feeding — Warmth — Diet — Ventilation 

 — Oatmeal — Vegetables — Mangel-wurzel — Sago — Biscuit — 

 Milk — Breeding — Walks— Sires and Dams — Generative Econ- 

 omy—Choice of Whelps— Naming— Rounding— Dividing Pack 

 — Drafting— Cub-hunting — Going out in the Evening, an Old 

 Practice— Entering Young Hounds — Killing Cubs — General Re- 

 sponsibility of Masters of Hounds .... 182 



CHAPTER XL 



Uncertainty of Scent — Signs and Indications — Mr. Smith's Theory 

 disputed — Arguments in Proof of Scent coming from Body and 

 Breath of the Animal, and not from Touch of Pad alone — Exem- 

 plified by Case in Point— Old Wells and the Oakley— Efi'ect 

 of Dew upon Scent — Ascent of Dew versus Descent— Experi- 

 mental Philosophy — Dr. Dufay and M. Muschenbrock — Results 

 of Experiments — Mr. Smith upon " Metal "... 209 



