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tiresome day is generally the consequence. Where the co- 

 ver is thick, you should draw it as exidly as if you were 

 trying for a hare, particularly if it be furzy ; for when there 

 isno drag, a fox, at a late hour, will lie till the hounds 

 come close upon him. Having drawn one cover, let your 

 huntsman stay for his hounds, and take them along with 

 him to another : I have known hounds find a fox after the. 

 huntsman had left the cover. The whippers-in are not to 

 be sparing of their whips or voices on this occasion, and arc 

 to come through the middle of the cover, to be certain that 

 they leave no hounds behind. 



A HUNTSMAN Will complain of hounds, for staying be- 

 hind in cover : it is- a great fault, and m.akes the hound 

 addided to it of but little value ; yet this fault fre- 

 quently is occasioned by the huntsman's own mismanage- 

 ment. Having drawn one cover, he hurries away to 

 another, and leaves the whipper-in to bring on the hounds 

 after him; but the whfpper-in is seldohi less desirous of 

 getting forward than the huntsman ; and, unless they come 

 off easily, it is not often that he v/iil give himself much 

 concern about them. Hounds also that are left too long at 

 their walks, will acquire this trick from hunting by them-* 



