134 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



j\Ir. ISleynell, with a Hundred Couples out— Success of such a Puck 

 —Killing above Ground, and Digging— Drawing over Foxes- Getting 

 settled to owe- "Ware Eiof' — Mischief of Interference— Hare and 

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

 vantageous — A Quick Find — Liability to Riot in a long draw Blank 

 — Punishment of Hounds— A Day in Herts — Average Spoi't — 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 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 every- 

 thing, 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 have done of yore, but are now out of date.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 gray, and 

 impart to the 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 

 shake the dew-drop from the thorn,— these are the 

 welcome materials constituting the prospect of a 

 hunting morning. Piightly to enjoy such a morning, 

 you must be in a frame of mind to exclaim with 

 Borneo : — 



