HUNTING DIRECTORY. 187 



The Huntsman should draw up the Wind. 



Distain'd attest his guilt. There, villain, there 

 Expect thy fate deserv'd. And soon from thence 

 The pack inquisitive, with clamour loud, 

 Drag out their trembling prize ; and on his blood 

 With greedy transport feast." — Somervile. 



I agree with Beckford that the huntsman should, 

 generally speaking, draw quietly, and up the wind : the 

 following are his observations on the subject: — "With 

 regard to drawing quietly, that may depend on the kind 

 of cover which he is drawing, and also on the season of 

 the year. If your covers are small, or such from which 

 a fox cannot break unseen, then noise can do no hurt ; if 

 you draw at a late hour, and when there is no drag, then 

 the more the cover is disturbed the better ; the more 

 likely you are to find. Late in the season, the foxes 

 are generally wild, particularly in covers that are often 

 hunted. If you do not draw quietly, he will get off a 

 long way before you : when you have any suspicion of 

 this, send on a whipper-in to the opposite side of the 

 cover, before you throw in your hounds. With regard 

 to the drawing up the wind, that is much more material. 

 You never fail to give the wind to a pointer or a setter 

 — why not to a hound ? — Besides the fox, if you draw 

 up the wind, does not hear you coming ; and your hounds, 

 by this means, are never out of your hearing ; moreover, 

 if he turns down the wind, as most probably he will, it 

 lets them all in." 



Speaking of gentlemen who ride after hounds, the 

 same writer observes, that few of them are sportsmen. 

 " Few gentlemen, (says he) will take any pains, few of 

 them will stop a hound, though he should run riot close 



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