3IO HUNTING. 



greatly appreciate and study an orthodox code of 

 hunting laws, as it would be far pleasanter for a lady 

 to avoid mistakes by their guidance, than to have 

 " her male friends to tell her in what way she is doing 

 wrong," possibly after she has received ''black looks" 

 from the whole of the field. Hunting is a science 

 which has to be learnt, and every game of science 

 should have its published code of regulations, or it 

 cannot be played without grave blunders by those 

 who have to pick it up at haphazard. 



In justice to my sex it must be allowed that they 

 do not holloa on viewing a fox, a fault that is often 

 committed by men, especially in the Provinces. 

 Colonel Alderson quoting from an old pamphlet on 

 hunting which was reprinted in 1880 by Messrs. 

 William Pollard and Co., Exeter, says: "Gentlemen, 

 keep your mouths shut and your ears open. The 

 fox has broken cover, you see him — gentlemen, 

 gentlemen, do not roar out ' Tally-ho ' ! do not 

 screech horribly. If you do, he will turn back, even 

 under your horses' feet, in spite of the sad and dis- 

 appointed look on your handsome or ugly faces. Do 

 not crack your infernal whips, be silent." 



Whyte Melville says : *' I do not say you are 

 never to open your mouth, but I think that if the 

 inmates of our deaf and dumb asylums kept hounds, 

 these would show sport above the average and would 

 seldom go home without blood. Noise is by no 

 means a necessary concomitant of the chase, and a 

 hat held up, or a quiet whisper to the huntsman, is 



