198 HUNTING TEEMS. 



Drawing. — The act of hunting to find a fox in a cover. 



or covert, as some term it. 

 Drag. — The scent left by the footsteps of the fox on his 



way from his rural rambles to his earth, or kennel. 



Our forefathers rose early ; and instead of drawing, 



hunted the fox by " dragging" up to him. 

 DweUing. — When hounds do not come up to the Imnts- 



nian's halloo till moved by the whipper-in, they are 



said to dwell. 

 Drafted. — Hounds drawn from the pack to be disposed 



of, or hung, are drafted. 

 " Earths are draivn.'' — When a vixen fox has drawn out 



fresh earth, it is a proof she intends to lay up her 



cubs there. 

 Eye to hounds. — A man has a good eye to hounds who 



turns his horse's head with the leading hounds. 

 Flighty. — A hound that is not a steady hunter. 

 Feeling a scent. — You say, if scent is bad, *' The hounds 



could scarcely feel the scent." 

 Foil. — When a fox runs the ground over which he has 



been before, he is running his foil. 

 Headed. — When a fox is going away^ and is met and 



driven back to cover, jealous riders, anxious for a 



start, are very apt to head the fox. It is one of the 



great crimes of the hunting-field. 

 Heel. — When hounds get on the scent of a fox, and run 



it back the way he came, they are said to be running 



heel. 

 Hold hard. — A cry that speaks for itself, which every 



one who wishes for sport will at once attend to when 



uttered by the huntsman. 

 Holding scent.~-\\hen the scent is just good enough for 



hounds to hunt a fox a fair pace, but not enough to 



press him. 



