1 6 Cross Country with Horse and Hound 



*Cast — the spreading of hounds when in search of the 



line. 

 ^Challenge — first hound to give tongue. 

 Counter — when hounds are running opposite to the way 



the fox is travelling. 

 Check — hounds stopped. 



Chopped a fox — said when fox is killed in covert. 

 *Cropper — fall from a horse. 

 Crash, a good crash — when hounds are running in covert 



and every one is throwing tongue. 

 Cub — young fox. 



Cold hunting — when hounds can hardly " feel scent." 

 Cover or covert — a wood or any place likely to conceal 

 a fox. 

 *Crop — hunting-whip. 

 Down wind — with the wind. 

 Up wind — against the wind. 

 *Double — said when a fox runs short back on the line. 

 Drawing — when hounds are working over a covert. 

 Drag — scent left by the footsteps of a fox on his way to 



kennel that morning. 

 Dwelling — feeling a stale scent. 

 Drafted — called out. 

 Earths are drawn — when vixen fox has drawn fresh 



earth; — proof she intends to lay her cub there. 

 Flighty — used of a hound that is not steady. 

 Feeling a scent — said when hounds can hardly distinguish 

 a scent. 

 *Feather — when hound is waving his "stern" (tail) he 

 is said to be " feathering." 



