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CHALLENGE : the hound which first speaks to the scent in cover is 

 said to challenge. 



CHECK : a stoppage in the run owing to the temporary loss of the 

 scent ; also used as a verb, to check. 



CHOPPED : a fox killed before he has had time to break cover is 

 said to have been chopped. 



COCKTAIL : any horse not thorough-bred. 



COUCH : the kennel, or lodging, of the otter. 



COUNTER : hounds are running counter when they are hunting the 

 scent the reverse way, i.e. away from the game. 



CROCKETS : an old-fashioned phrase for the upright or top points 

 of a stag's antler. 



CROP : a hunting-whip. 



CROPPER : a bad fall ; the words crumpler and crowner are also 

 used in the same significance, the latter generally with the 

 addition of the epithet imperial. 



CUB : the young of the fox. 



DOE : the female of the fallow-deer, hare, or rabbit. 



DOUBLE : a fox or hare doubles when it turns short back on its 

 line. 



DRAG : the scent left by the fox returning home from his midnight 

 prowlings. Also a fictitious scent produced by trailing or drag- 

 ging along the ground a rabbit-skin, wisp of straw, piece of rag, 

 or any receptive substance soaked in aniseed. Drag hounds is 

 the term applied to a pack (generally a very scratch one) kept 

 particularly for this sort of chase, which is at least as good a 

 sport as hunting the carted deer, and for the most part much 

 better fun. 



DRAW : used of the hounds ranging for their game. 



EARTH : the underground home or burrow of the fox. 



EARTH-STOPPER : the man whose business it is to see that all the 

 neighbouring earths are duly stopped on hunting-days. This 

 must be done overnight, when the foxes are abroad after their 

 food. 



FEATHER : when a hound has a fancy that he scents his game, but 

 is not yet quite certain enough to give tongue or speak to it, his 

 stern will be observed to be violently agitated : this is called 

 1 feathering on the scent.' 



FEUMENT, or FEUMISHING : the dung of the deer. 



FOIL : an animal runs its foils when it returns on its own tracks. 



FORM : the seat, or kennel, of the hare. 



