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APPENDIX V. 



THE USE OF THE HORN. 



By H. H. Howard-Vyse, 



With beagles the horn should be used sparingly, and, except 

 at a kill, for one purpose only, to call hounds to one. There is 

 little more to be said except that the sound of the horn carries a 

 very short distance, and that it should therefore be blown with 

 all the strength that the huntsman's lungs permit. To call 

 hounds to one when drawing or casting, a short blast is usually 

 employed; to bring them on to the line of a viewed hare, the 

 note should be a longer one causing more excitement; the 

 same applies to the occasion of a kill ; and, in calling hounds 

 together at the end of the day, it is well to use a long-drawn-out 

 note with a die-away tinge in it. 



