THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. l6l 



you must follow those hounds that can, and try to hit her 

 off where she breaks her foil, which, in all probability, 

 she will soon do, as she now flatters herself she is secure. 

 When the scent lies bad in cover, she will sometimes seem 

 to hunt the hounds. 



-The covef t's utmost bound 



Slily she skirts ; behind them eautious creeps. 

 And in that very track, so lately stain'd 

 By all the steaming crowd, seems to pursue 

 The foe she flies. " 



SOMERVILLE, 



When the hounds are at a check, make your huntsman 

 stand still, nor suffer him to move his horse one way or 

 the other : hounds lean naturally towards the scent, and, 

 if you say not a word to them, will soon recover it. If 

 you speak to a hound at such a timcj calling by his name, 

 which is too much the praftice, he seldom fails to look 

 up in your face, as much as to say, zvbat the deuce do 

 you Tcant P — when he stoops to the scent again, is it 

 not probable that he means to say, you fool you, let ms 

 alone? 



When your hounds are at fault, let not a word be said : 

 kt such as follow them ignorantly and unworthily, stand 



