202 THOITGHTS UPON IfUNTIKG. 



could depend upon the halloo, in fome cafes I 

 would : for inftance, when the ^ox is a great way 

 before them, or perfifts in running his foil ; for 

 fuch foxes are difficult to kill, unlefs you endea^ 

 vour to get nearer to them by fome means or 

 other. When you hunt after them, it will fre- 

 quently happen that the longer you run, the fur- 

 ther you will be behind, 



If hounds be out of blood, and a fox run his 

 foil, you need not fcrupie to flop the tail hounds, 

 and throw tlicm In at head ; or, if the cover have 

 any ridings cut in it, and the fox be often feen, 

 your huntfman, by keeping fome hounds at 

 his horfe's heels, at the firfl halloo that he hears, 

 may throw them in clofe at him.* — This will put 

 him out of his pace, and perhaps, put him off his 

 foil. It will be necelfary, when you do this, that 

 the whipper-in fliould flop the p?.ck from hunting 

 after, and get forvvard with thcni to the huntfman, 

 I have already given it as my opinion, that 

 hounds may be hallooed too much. If they 



* Nothing is meant more than this — " that the himtfmari 

 {hould get the tail hounds off the line of the fcent, (where they 

 do more harm than good,) and encourage them forward ; if he 

 lliould hear a halloo, whilft thefe hounds are off the fcent, he 

 ihould lajthcm on to it ; it he ftiould not, the tail hounds, by this 

 means, may ftill ftand a. chance of getting to the head hounds by 

 itieear^ which they never could do, if they continued to run by 

 the ito^/e. 



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