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except when his fox was goue^ or 

 his fox was in his Jiand : the 

 hounds, learning the note, would 

 leave a fox in covert to fly to 

 it. Hounds are very sagacious 

 animals ; they cannot bear being 

 left behind, nor do they like 

 struggling through thick covert ; 

 but if that note is ever used at 

 any other time the charm is gone, 

 the hounds will not believe in it ; 

 you cannot lie to them with /;;/. 

 punity. This was Goodall's great 

 secret for getting his hounds 

 away all in a lump on the hack of 

 his /o.r, and hustling him before 

 he had time to empty himself. 

 This w^as his system for getting 

 his hounds through large wooil- 

 .lands — to come tumbling out 

 together without splitting, and 

 sticking to their run fox. This 

 is the explanation of the famous 

 old Meynell saying, '' In the second 

 Jield they gathered themselves 



