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On seeing the pricking or footing of the hare : Le 

 voye, le voye ("The view, the view "). 



In France, Tallyho^ or a very similar sounding word, 

 was employed in the early days when the huntsman 

 was sure that the right stag had gone away, whether he 

 only knew it by his slot, &c., or whether he had viewed 

 him. 



It was also a call to bring up the hounds when the stag 

 had gone away, and at the end of the curee^ when the 

 huntsman held part of the entrails of the deer on a large 

 wooden fork, and the hounds bayed it (which was called 

 the firhu), the huntsman called out Tally ho. 



We only find Tallyho in comparatively recent Eng- 

 lish hunting literature and songs — never, so far as I am 

 aware, before the late seventeenth century, and it does 

 not occur at all constantly until the eighteenth century. 

 Neither Turbervile nor Blome nor Cox, in their books on 

 the various chases, mention such a word, though we find 

 instruction to the huntsman to say "Hark to him," "Hark 

 forward," "Hark back," and "To him, to him"; besides 

 the inevitable "So how sohow." Neither in Twici, 

 " Master of Game," " Boke of St. Albans," Chaucer, or 

 Shakespeare can we find an invigorating Tallyho. It 

 would almost appear as if it were a seventeenth century 

 importation from across the Channel, which is quite 

 possible, for Henry IV. of France sent in that century 

 three of his best huntsmen, Desprez, de Beaumont, and 

 de Saint-Ravy, to the Court of King James I. to teach 

 the royal huntsmen how to hunt the stag in the French 

 way, English Court hunting having degenerated into 

 coursing of stags within the park palings. 



Taïaut in France was used solely in the chase of red, 

 fallow, or roe deer. 



HUNTING MUSIC. In the "Master of Game," 

 as in all the earliest hunting literature, much importance 

 is placed on the huntsman's sounding his horn in the 

 proper manner in order, as Twici says, that " Each man 



