THE MANAGEMENT OF HOUNDS 



Many huntsmen keep up a running fire of falsetto 

 encouragement to their hounds, but it has never 

 seemed productive of good results and has a 

 tendency to distract their attention. They know 

 their business, and if you can catch a fox yourself, 

 why go ahead and do it ! It makes them indifferent 

 also, when a crisis really arrives, and if they have 

 been rarely interfered with, your voice then brings 

 energetic response, and eager work. If they 

 " kennel-know " you and love you, they will try all 

 they can, anyhow. When the " kill " comes, call 

 them by name, as, " Bachelor ^ here ! Music ! Van- 

 ity^ old woman ! " etc., and after the " who-o-op ! " 

 which has announced the finish, cry, " Worry ^ 

 worry, worry ! Tear him and eat him ! " and so 

 on. To make hounds drink, the words " Suss, 

 suss ! '* are used. There are numerous other 

 rates, cheers, and calls, but every huntsman has 

 his pet vocabulary, and you will by degrees 

 acquire one of your own. Readers will pardon 

 these details, which are feebly and incompletely 

 set forth, as well as matter-of-course to all who 

 have hunted, but this is intended for those who 

 have not^ and only as a general guide at that. 



No details of the management of bag-foxes and 

 their destruction, if hounds can be induced to 



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