14 FOXES AT HOME. 



eventually keeps hounds in kennel for days and 

 weeks, then there will be a burning scent and 

 a brilliant run, provided fox and daylight last 

 long enough. The roads, however, will be 

 pretty slippery on the way home ! 



I have no faith in the '' southern wind and 

 cloudy sky " theory, having known the loveliest 

 southern breezes and cloudiest of skies on days 

 when hounds could not go out of a walk ! 



Whyte Melville's "Galloping Squire" must 

 have considered himself uncommonly lucky 

 when he found a good scent ''While the 

 dewdrop is melting in gems on the thorn ! " 

 'Tis seldom so, or when one sees them 

 glistening on the cobwebs as one rides to the 

 meet. 



If when sitting in the saddle you can wind 

 the fox yourself, the scent is rising, and the 

 hounds are unable to feel it, but yet how often 

 on an occasion like this, when hounds are almost 

 at a standstill, has one heard " Young Brimful 

 of Ignorance " (as Mr. Jorrocks would describe 

 him !) remark : " What rot this is ! Why I could 

 almost hunt the fox myself ! Can't you wind 

 him ? " and so on ! 



Different foxes have different scents, some 



