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I tell you that I have seen a Master of Fox- 

 hounds, after putting them into covert, gallop 

 away from them under the pretence of a 

 perfect knowledge of the run of foxes from 

 that covert, blow his horn a mile off in the 

 valley, after he had shaken out a hagman ? " 



A great deal depends, also, upon having 

 good, quiet Whips. ''Remember, in what- 

 ever you may have to do with a hunting 

 dog, whether hound, spaniel, or pointer, you 

 cannot he too quiet. As the old adage advises, 

 ' Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.' 

 The noise and bother and confusion that I 

 have witnessed in some fields has so dis- 

 tracted the hounds that they did not know 

 what to do. Some have gone to the 'holloa,' 

 some to the horn, and some would not quit 

 the line, until the pack became dispersed all 

 over the covert, all listening for each other 

 and none at work ; and amid all this the 

 fox has slipped away, and nobody knew 

 where." 



The Hon. Grantley Berkeley, who hunted 

 the Oakley Hounds seventy years ago, also 



