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of it in my own huntsman, who was making so 

 much noise with his hounds, which were then at 

 a fault, that a man hallooed a long while before 

 he heard him ; and when he did hear him, so 

 little did he know whence the halloo came, that 

 he rode a couple of miles the wrong way, and 

 lost the fox. 



When hounds approach a cover which it is 

 intended they should draw, and dash away to- 

 wards it, whippers-in ride after them to stop 

 them. It is too late, and they had better let 

 them alone ; it checks them in their drawing, 

 and is of no kind of use : it will be soon enough 

 to begin to rate when they have found, and hunt 

 improper game. If a huntsman has his hounds 

 under good command, and is attentive to them, 

 they will not break off till he chooses they should. 

 If he goes by the side of a cover which he does 

 not intend to draw, his whippers-in must be in 

 their proper places ; but if he rides up to a co- 

 ver with them unawed, uncontrouled, — a cover 

 where they have been used to find, they must 

 be slack indeed if they do not dash into it. It 

 is for that reason better, I think, not to come 

 to a cover always the same way ; hounds, by 

 not knowing what is going forward, will be less 

 likely to break off, and will draw more quietly. 

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