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with his finger, perhaps, and then away you all 

 ride as fast as you can; and in such a hurry, 

 that not one will stay to hear the answer which 

 you all were so desirous of knowing : the general 

 consequence of which is, you mistake the place, 

 and are obliged to return to the man for better 

 information. Depend upon it, the less hurry 

 you are in on this occasion, the less time you 

 lose ; and wherever the fox was seen for a cer- 

 tainty, whether near or distant, that will not 

 only be the surest, but also the best place to 

 take the scent ; and, besides the certainty of 

 going right, you will also, 1 believe, get on 

 faster than you would by any other means. 



That halloos are not always to be depended 

 on, will be sufficiently evinced by the following 

 instances : 



My hounds being at a long fault, a fellow hal- 

 looed to them from the top of a rick, at some 

 distance olt". The huntsman, as you will believe, 

 stuck spurs to his horse, hallooed till he was 

 almost hoarse, and got to the man as quickly as 

 he could : the man still kept hallooing ; and as 

 the hounds got near hun, '• Here^'' said he — 

 '"'•here — here the fox is gone r'' — "Is he far 

 before us?"' cried the huntsman: "how long 

 ago was it that you saw him T'' — " No, master, I 



