192 THE DLVRY OF A HUNTS:NL\N 



and would recollect the difference of a good run 

 and a bad one, they would act differently. 



K it happens that a man views a fox breaking 

 cover, he should not halloo until he is got away 

 some distance, nearly, or quite across, a good-sized 

 field ; for if he halloos too soon the fox wiU head 

 back mto cover. The following plan Avill save 

 much trouble. If the fox is gone away, to haUoo 

 •• Tally-ho away I " or, " Tally-ho, awawoy ! " this 

 being more easy to haUoo loudly. If the fox heads 

 back into cover, halloo "TaUy-ho back I" or "boickl" 

 the halloo to be distinctly given, m order that the 

 huntsman and the men on the other side of the 

 cover should know whether the fox is gone away or 

 headed back. But if he only halloos " Tally-ho ! " 

 which is too conunonly the case, the huntsman and 

 the rest of the field suppose that he (the fox) is gone 

 awav, and gallop round the cover, some one way 

 and some another, to the halloo. When they get 

 there, they find the fox is gone back : the conse- 

 quence of which is, not only, that they have ridden 

 their horses for nothing, but that, in coming romid, 

 thev have probably headed the fox again ; when 

 had they stood stiU on hearing that the haUoo 

 was back, the fox would have gone away at some 

 other point Some foxes that would fly at first get 



