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A few minutes more are lost be- 

 fore the best hounds will put 

 their noses down and begin to 

 feel for the scent, a second check 

 becomes fatal, and the fox is irre- 

 trievably lost. Often enough, in 

 being whipped up to their hunts- 

 man in this way, when crossing 

 the line of the fox with their heads 

 up, they first catch his wind, and 

 then, as a matter of course, they 

 must take the scent heelways, 

 the fox as a rule running down 

 the wind. This fatal piece of 

 bungling — so injurious to hounds 

 — is always entirely owing to 

 the huntsman ; it is neither the 

 fault of the whips nor the hounds ; 

 it never can occur when the 

 huntsman moves his hounds in 

 his front with their noses down. 

 In these two different systems 

 lies the distinction between being 

 quick and a bad hurry. 



(2) When the fox was gone, in 



