124 FOXES AT HOME. 



to insure this the hounds are clapped on the 

 back of the fox, if possible, as he quits the covert, 

 and with anything of a scent he is burst up before 

 he has got his second wind or even made up his 

 mind which point to make for. Poor old 

 Jorrocks, if he were present now and started 

 " counting twenty," would find the hounds were 

 in the next parish probably before he had 

 finished ! Tenipora viutantitr ! and one has to 

 keep with the times and the hounds, if possible ! 



