hundred yards /// his front, every 

 hound busy before him with his 

 nose snuffing the ground, his 

 hackles up, his stern curled over 

 his back, each hound relying on 

 himself and believing in each 

 other. When cast in this ivay^ 

 the huntsman learns the exact 

 value of each hound, while the 

 young hounds learn what old 

 hounds too believe in and tiy to, 

 and when the scent is taken up 

 no hound is disappointed. When 

 the huntsman trails his hounds 

 behind him, four-hfths of his best 

 honnds will be staring at his horse s 

 tail^ doing nothing. 



The hounds came to have such 

 confidence in Goodall, that with a 

 burning scent he would cast them 

 in this way at a hand gallop, all 

 the hounds in his front making 

 every inch of ground good ; w^hile 

 with a poor scent he would do it 

 in a walk, regulating his pace by 



