178 ON DRAWING. 



killed a fox ?" — "iVb ; we have had a good run, 

 but we have not killed,"" — " Pshaw /" cried the 

 butcher, with an arch look, pointing at him at 

 the same time with his finger : and this was so 

 constantly repeated, that the Duke, when he 

 had not killed a fox, was used to say, he was 

 afraid to meet the butcher. 



You ask, why the huntsman is to draw so 

 quietly, and why up the wind ? With regard to 

 his drawing quietly, that may depend on the 

 kind of cover which he is drawing, and also on 

 the season of the year. If your covers are small, 

 or such from wliich a fox cannot break unseen, 

 then noise can do no hurt ; if you draw at a 

 late hour, and when there is no drag, then the 

 more the cover is disturbed the better ; the 

 more likely you are to find. Late in the season 

 foxes generally are wild, particularly in covers 

 that are often hunted. If you do not draw 

 quietly, he will sometimes get off a long way 

 before you : when you have any suspicion of 

 this, send on a whipper-in to the opposite side 

 of the cover, before you throw in your hounds. 

 With regard to the drawing up the wind, that 

 is much more material. You never fail to give 

 the wind to a pointer and setter ; why not to a 

 hound "^ Besides, the fox, if you draw up the 



