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who is around you, who understands Hunting, can know 

 in which point you are in your sport by your blowing." 

 The author of " Master of Game " (p. 170) says he will 

 give us "a chapter which is all of blowing," but he 

 omitted to fulfil this promise, so that we have only such 

 information as we can gather in his chapters on stag 

 and hare-hunting. The differences in the signals were 

 occasioned by the length of the sound or note, and the 

 intervals between each. Twici expresses these notes in 

 syllables, such as trout^ trout^ trourourout. The first of 

 these would be single notes, with an interval between 

 them, blown probably with a separate breath or wind for 

 each ; the latter would be three notes blown without 

 interval and with a single breath or wind. The principal 

 sounds on the hunting horn were named as follows : — 



A Moot or Motc^ a single note, which might be 

 sounded long or short. 



A Recheat. To recheat, Twici says, " blow in this 

 manner, tr our our our out ^ tr our our our out ^ tr our our our out ^'^ 

 therefore a four-syllabled sound succeeded by an interval, 

 blown three times. In the " Master of Game " we find 

 the recheat preceded or followed by a moot, the most 

 constantly recurring melody. When the limer has 

 moved the stag, and the huntsman sees him go away, he 

 was to blow a moot and recheat. If the stag is moved 

 but not viewed, and the huntsman knows only by the slot 

 that it is his stag that has gone away, he is to recheat 

 without the moot, for that was only to be blown when 

 the stag was seen. When the hounds are at fault and 

 any one finds the slot of the deer, he should recheat " in 

 the rightes and blow a long moot for the lymerer," or if 

 he thinks he sees the hunted stag, he should blow a moot 

 and recheat, and after that blow two moots for the 

 hounds. 



The Forlonge. A signal that the stag had got away 

 far ahead of the hounds or that these had distanced some 

 or all of the huntsmen [icc Appendix : Forlonge). 



The Perfect or Parfit. Twici says it began by " a 



