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find, and get together like magic, and away without 

 scarcely a hound throA\ing tongue ; when, even if 

 a man is present, it is ten to one (if the cover is a 

 large one) against his getting away well with them, 

 unless he adopts the plan of tning never to lose 

 sight of them. It is true the loss of a run of this 

 sort ought to be a caution, for it is owing to a 

 burning scent that there is scarcely any cry — it 

 is the pace which stops the music. 



If hounds are dra^^Tuo; a laroje cover, and cannot 

 be seen, never let them get out of hearing. To pre- 

 vent which, the only certain way is to keep down 

 ^\Tiid, and the hmitsman must be heard ; this plan 

 should be adopted, even if it is much farther round. 

 It is not here meant that a man should gallop off 

 all round a cover dovm. wind, but get on steadily 

 opposite the hounds ; or by getting too forward, he 

 might head back a fox, and thereby be the cause of 

 a bad rmi instead of a good one. Had the men 

 stood still when down wind, or out of sio:ht, a ffood 

 fox might have gone away, and the first which 

 breaks cover is likely to be the best ; but he being 

 headed, owing to thoughtless riders, the homids may 

 change to a bad one. and run the cover for hours 

 until he is killed. If these men only knew how 

 much they were abused for not attenduig to this. 



