170 AT FAULT. 



get forward with your hounds, and make a 

 wide cast. 



Hark ! that halloo is indeed a lucky one. 

 If we can hold him on, we may yet recover 

 him ; for a fox so much distressed must stop 

 at last. We now shall see if they will hunt 

 as well as run ; for there is but little scent, 

 and the impending cloud still makes that little 

 less. How they enjoy the scent ! See how 

 busy they all are, and how each in his turn 

 prevails ! 



Huntsman, be quiet ! Whilst the scent was 

 good, you pressed on your hounds : it was 

 well done. Your hounds were afterwards at 

 fault ; you made your cast with judgment, 

 and lost no time. You now must let them 

 hunt : with such a cold scent as this you can 

 do no good. — 'I'hey must do it all themselves. 

 — Lift them noAv, and not a hound will stoop 

 again. — Ha ! a high road, at such a time as 

 this, when the tenderest-nosed hound can hard- 

 ly own the scent ! — Another fault ! That 

 man at work, then, has headed back the fox. 

 — Huntsman! cast not your hounds now; — 

 you see they have over-run the scent : have 

 a little patience, and let them, for once, try 

 back. 



