242 KDLES FOIl DRAWING. 



necessary part of fox-hunting on themselves, for 

 the whipper-in has other business to attend to.* 



I approve not of long drags in large covers ; 

 they give too great an advantage to the fox, 

 who frequently sets off a long way before you. 

 This may be prevented by throwing your 

 hounds into that part of the cover in which 

 he is most likely to kennel : for want of this 

 precaution, a fox sometimes gets so far the start 

 of hounds, that they are not able to do any 

 thing with him afterwards. Also, when hounds 

 first touch on a drag, some huntsmen are so 

 careless, that while they are going on with it the 

 wrong way themselves, a single hound finds the 

 fox, and is not caught any more by the pack till 

 he has lost him again. 



Foxes are said to go down the wind to their 

 kennel; but, I believe, they do not always ob- 

 serve that rule. 



Huntsmen, whilst their hounds are drawing, 

 or are at a fault, frequently make so much noise 

 themselves, that they can hear nothing else : 

 they should always have an ear to a halloo. I 

 once saw an extraordinary instance of the want 



* Upon these occasions, when you see two gentlemen 

 togetfier, you may reasonably conclude that one of them, at 

 least, knows nothing of the matter. 



