higli^ tliey would overrun it, throw up, and there 

 he would be in the midst of them, not knowing 

 how to repair the mischief he had done, or probably 

 being able to tell the huntsman when he came up, 

 to any certainty, how far they really brought tlie 

 scent on. 



" If a man has put hounds on the line of their 

 game, he should let them hunt it, keeping wide of 

 them, and watching the leading hound, marking 

 how^ far, and the spot to which, he really carried 

 on the scent. Doing this, he is really useful to the 

 huntsman. But a man should be a thorough judge 

 of hounds and hunting, to take upon himself to 

 give such information ; for it in no way follows 

 that, because the pack collectively ran on to a 

 certain spot, that they carried on the scent thus 

 far. If a leading hound or two are seen to fall 

 back into the pack, or feather about a bit, the 

 body of the hounds may rush forward, and those 

 that were leading may follow, probably from mere 

 habit ; so if a huntsman was decidedly told that 

 the scent was carried on to where at last the 

 whole body threw up, he would be led into an error. 

 Where the leading hound or hounds faltered, 

 was most probably the actual spot to which the 

 scent was brought. The information should be, 

 ' such and such hounds led up to such a place,' 

 probably a field or two oflf. The huntsman then 

 knows what he has to trust to, if he can trust also 



M 4 



