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on cantering back, enquired, "Why did you 

 say they were running false, Mr. Chapman ? " 



"Because," was the reply, "whenever you see 

 hounds on a calm day like this run so far in a 

 perfectly straight line, to me it is conclusive 

 evidence that they are off the scent. They 

 should always swerve a little now and again, 

 in order to catch the scent." 



I have often noticed this myself in hound 

 trails, when running the strong scent of turpen- 

 tine and aniseed ; and it is not at all uncommon 

 to see them cheek it, and run quite fifty yards 

 inside the line of trail, catching the scent as 

 it is borne away by the breeze. Trainers and 

 eye-witnesses of the annual hound trails at 

 Grasmere sports, will, I feel confident, confirm 

 this opinion. 



I remember in the Seventies, when running 

 a fox up Morpeth Scar, at the top of which there 

 is a green grass lane leading towards the west, 

 when the hoimds had just got on to the lane, 

 a groom or hind hollowed, and galloped the 

 hounds as fast as he could along the lane, but 



