ON HOLLOAING 3 S7 



instance of this. We had had a very hard day, 

 run our first fox to ground after a brilliant fifteen 

 minutes, and killed a second in about the same 

 time. Then we found a third who led us a merry 

 dance of forty-five minutes, the pace being strong 

 all the way, and only about a dozen of us were 

 left out of a large field, when he got into a big 

 wood, which was and is a famous stronghold for 

 foxes. I was standing in a ride when I saw a fox 

 peep out amongst some briars. I did not move, 

 and presently he crossed a small open space and 

 went over the ride as lightly and apparently as 

 fresh as when he had broken covert three-quarters 

 of an hour earlier. Hounds were running hard, 

 and when the huntsman came up to me I said I 

 believed they had changed. " I don't see how 

 they could, sir, they've never been off the line," 

 was his reply, and in another minute we saw the 

 fox when he did not see us, and this time there 

 was no mistake about whether he was the run fox, 

 and hounds soon had hold of him. 



Occasionally, when scent serves none too well, 

 hounds may have been running for perhaps up- 

 wards of an hour with a fox, and they will then, if 

 they have kept at him, have run him very nearly 

 tired, unless he should be a very good fox indeed. 

 If the country is well stocked with foxes, it is very 

 likely that one, or perhaps more, foxes will have 

 been disturbed, and then it behoves a man to be 

 very careful indeed how he holloas. Better 

 far is it to ride up to Master or huntsman, 

 or one of the other hunt servants, and tell them 

 exactly what he has seen. He should be careful 

 to note both in what direction the fox came 

 from and in what direction he was going, and 



