HINTS TO THE HUNTSMAN. 



Different countries require different casts: 

 such huntsmen as have been used to a wood- 

 land and inclosed country, I have seen lose 

 time in an open country, where wide casts 

 are always necessary. 



When you want to cast round a flock of 

 sheep, the whipper-in ought to drive them the 

 other way, lest they should keep running on 

 before you. 



A fox seldom goes over or under a gate, 

 when he can avoid it. 



Huntsmen are frequently very conceited, and 

 very obstinate. Often have I seen them, when 

 their hounds came to a check, turn directly 

 back, on seeing hounds at head, which they 

 had no opinion of. They supposed the fox 

 was gone another way ; in which case Mr. 

 Bayes's remark in the Rehearsal always occurs 

 to me, " that if he should not, what then 

 becomes of their suppose.''' Better, surely, 

 would it be, to make a short cast forward 

 first ; they then might be certain the hounds 

 were wrong, and of course could make their 

 own cast with greater confidence. The ad- 

 vantage, next to that of knowing where the 

 fox is gone, is that of knowing, with certainty, 

 where he is not. 



