HUNTING DIRECTORY. 195 



Hounds should not be too much used to Halloos. 



such halloos as get on the tail hounds, or serve to keep 

 the hounds together, are always useful. View halloos 

 are prejudicial — in a strong cover, full of foxes, for 

 instance — if, under such circumstances, view halloos are 

 frequently given, hounds will not take the requisite 

 trouble in hunting. 



While hounds are running with a good scent, they 

 should never be taken off to go to a halloo ; but, under 

 other circumstances, when the fox, for instance, is a great 

 distance ahead, such a step may be very advisable. 

 When the fox persists in running his foil, the tail hounds 

 may be thrown in at head ; as such foxes are difficult to 

 kill ; and it frequently happens that, the longer you hunt 

 after such foxes, the further you are behind them. Such 

 a manoeuvre will most likely put renard out of his pace, 

 or off his foil ; and whenever it is resorted to, the 

 whipper-in should stop the pack from hunting after, and 

 get forward with them to the huntsman. 



If hounds, however, are often used to halloos, they 

 will expect them, and may trust to their ears and eyes in 

 preference to their noses. If they are often taken from 

 the scent, it teaches them to shuffle, and will probably 

 make them slack in cover : halloos, therefore, should be 

 used with due circumspection, and never employed 

 vmnecessarily. Whilst hounds can get well on with the 

 scent, it is not advisable to take them off from it ; but 

 when they are stopped for want of it, in such case it 

 cannot be wrong to assist them as much as possible. 



Hounds should not be suffered to hunt after other 

 hounds that are gone on with the scent, since they are 

 not likely to get up with a worse scent. Besides, it makes 



