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Of a tired Fox. 



great allowance ought to be made. The trotting away 

 with hounds to make a long and knowing cast, is a pri- 

 vilege which a new huntsman cannot pretend to : an ex- 

 perienced one may safely say, a fox has made for such 

 a cover, when he has known, perhaps, that nine out of 

 ten, with the wind in the same quarter, have constantly 

 gone thither. 



" In a country where there are large earths, a fox 

 that knows the country, and tries any of them, seldom 

 fails to try the rest. A huntsman may take advantage 

 of this ; they are certain casts, and may help him to get 

 nearer to his fox. 



" Great caution is necessary when a fox runs into a 

 village : if he is halloo'd there, get forward as fast as you 

 can. Foxes, when tired, will lie down any where, and 

 are often lost by it. A wide cast is not the best to recover 

 a tired fox with tired hounds : they should hvmt him out, 

 inch by inch, though they are ever so long about it, for 

 the reason I have just given, that he will lie down any 

 ivhere. 



" In chases and forestSj where high fences are made to 

 preserve the coppices, I like to see a huntsman put only 

 a few hounds over, enough to carry on the scent, and 

 get forward with the rest : it is a proof that he knows 

 his business. 



"A huntsman must take care, where foxes are in 

 plenty, that he does not run the heel ; for it frequently 

 happens, that hounds can run the wrong way of the scent 

 better than they can the right, when one is up the wind 

 and the other down. 



" Fox-hunters, I think, are never guilty of the fault of 

 trying up the wind, before they have tried down. I 



