SPORTING TECHNOLOGY. 421 



some time before his visiting it, were done away 

 with. The recheat and the mort were wanting to 

 make the thing complete. 



A kind of technological dictionary is required to 

 almost all sports of flood and field. Of the techni- 

 cal terms in deer-hunting Nimrod thus speaks : — 

 " What we fox-hunters call the ball or pad of a 

 fox on foot, stasr-hunters term the ' slot.' We dras 

 up to a fox ; they draw on the slot, or walk up a 

 deer. We find or unkennel a fox ; they rouse or 

 unharbour a deer. A fox runs up and down a 

 cover ; a deer beats up or down a covert, or a 

 stream. With us, a fox is headed (turned back, or 

 driven from his point;) with them, a deer is 

 blanched. We say, a fox stops or hangs in a cover, 

 in a run ; they say, their game sinks. We re- 

 cover our fox ; they fresh-find their deer. We run 

 into (kill) our fox ; they set up the deer. The fox 

 is worried ; the deer is broken up. The fox goes a 

 clicketting ; the deer goes to rut. The fox barks ; 

 the stag bellows. The billiting (excrement) of the 

 one is termed the feument or feumishing of the 

 other. The brush of the fox is the single of the 

 deer. The mask of the fox is the snout or nose of 

 the deer. The view, the foil, the tally-ho, and 

 who- whoop, are common, I believe, to all ; but cur- 

 rant jelly and sweet sauce are not in the fox-hun- 

 ter's vocabulary."" " There are some expressions 

 here,"" continues Nimrod, " which require farther 

 explanation than I am able to afford them ; and it 

 is almost presumptuous in me, without any assist- 



