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daat he hears, may throw them in dose at him*. This 

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

 his foil. It will be necessary, when you do this, that the 

 whipper-in should 5top the pack from hunting after, and 

 get forward with them to the huntsman. — 1 have already 

 given it as my opinion, that hounds may be halloo'd too 

 much. If they should have been often used to a halloo, 

 they will expedt it, and may trust, perhaps, to their ears 

 and eyes, more than to their noses. If they be often 

 taken from the scent, it will teach them to shuffle, and 

 probably will make them slack in cover : it should be 

 done, therefore, with great caution ; not too often ; and 

 always should be well-timed. Famous huntsmen, I think, 

 by making too frequent a use of this, sometimes hurt their 

 hounds. I have heard of a sportsman who never suffers 

 his hounds to be lifted : he lets them pick along the 

 coldest scent, through flocks of sheep : — this is a particular 



* Nothing is meant more than this — ** that the huntsman should get 

 the tail hounds off the line of the scent (where they do more harm than 

 good), and encourage them forward j if he should hear a halloo whilst 

 these hounds are off the scent, he should lay them on to it ; if he should 

 not, the tail hounds, by this means, may still stand a chance of getting 

 to the head hounds by the ear, which they never could do, if they coho 

 tinued to run by the ?iosi:," 



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