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are at fault, one's duty is to call out two or three times, 

 " tally ho ! ", so as to attract the attention of the huntsman ; 

 and to shout " tally ho back ! ", if Reynard leaves the covert, 

 changes his mind and returns to it. Here, the holloa may be 

 given when the fox is too far off, in which case the hounds 

 might not be able to take up the line properly. If the holloa 

 is given too close, it may have the effect of sending the fox 

 back into the covert, and spoiling what might have otherwise 

 been a good run. Besides, there is often more than one fox 



Fig. 239. Midland stile. 



in a covert, and the viewed one may not be the fox which the 

 huntsman wants to pursue. Further, the viewed fox may be 

 going in the wrong direction, for instance, away from the 

 kennels, at the end of a long day, and especially when the 

 hounds are far from home. If, on viewing a fox, we have 

 good reason to think that a judicious holloa would be helpful 

 to the huntsman, we might, if practicable, ride up to him, or 

 to one of the whippers-in and tell him what we saw, or hold 

 up our hat. 



