NOTITIA VENATICA. 123 



CHAP. VI. 



THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OP HOUNDS CONTINUED ; 



COVERS, &c. 



" Hail ! greenwood shades, that, stretching far, 

 Defy e'en summer's noontide power.'' 



Bloomfield, 



" We come ! ye groves, ye hills ! we come ! 

 The vagrant fox shall hear his doom , 

 And dread our jovial train." 



Ihid. 



CONTENTS. 



Making the most of a rough country — Various covers described — Gorse covers in 

 Northamptonshire — Artificial covers — Sowing — Cutting and burning — Artificial 

 earths— Fox -catchers — Badgers — Woodland foxes stout — Small covers preju- 

 dicial to hounds during cub-hunting — Large holding covers good — Mr. Assheton 

 Smith's plan in the Collinbourne woods — Earth-stopping — Hounds should run 

 together — Blood makes wild hounds more riotous at the time — Mr. King's 

 bitches in Hampshire — Sir Bellingham Graham's opinion — How to form a pack 

 — Duties of a whipper-in— Anecdote of Dick Foster and Shayer at Mr. Villebois' 

 kennel — A drunken whipper-in — The Duke of Grafton's rules for a whipper-in 

 — Accidents to men in kennels — A whipper-in with a cork leg — Jack Stevens 

 an excellent whipper-in — Tom Ball — What a huntsman ought to be — Will Long 

 — The old school and the modern^— A Frenchman's idea of what a huntsman 

 should be — Epitaph to old Tom Johnson — Food of wild animals — Advice in 

 hunting a pack of hounds — Drawing — Finding — A curious kennel for foxes 

 near Beverley — Habits of foxes in autumn — Advice in bunting hounds con- 

 tinued — When to cheer and when to be silent — Working by signs — Checking — 

 Blood and good weather desirable — Will Todd's opinion of a fine morning — 

 Hounds beat by their foxes at the point of death — William Shaw's disappoint- 

 ment — Dick Knight whips the fox out of the kennel and gets beat — The fox 

 and " many friends " — Curious anecdote of a badger — Accidents to hounds — 

 Mr. Hodgson's hounds falling down Speeton cliffs — On horsing the men — Job- 

 bing hunters from Mr. Tilbury — Hunting a country fairly — The farmers at 

 Kenilworth — Anecdote of Mr. Corbet — Hunting in the snow — Notice of Will 

 Neverd's death — Remark on scent — Holderness a good scenting country — 

 Anecdote of old Will Carter — Many hares staiu the ground like sheep — On 

 travelling hounds — Long distances to cover and home — A van occasionally used 

 — Killing a May fox — Late hunting prejudicial to sport — The beauty of the 



