HUNTING DIRECTORY. 289 



Training Hounds. 



sharply. When they have stopped, he who is behind, 

 and at first very near to the dogs, calls them with Ao, 

 ho^ ho J As soon as they begin to turn their heads, he 

 instantly cries an retour^ au retour, (turn, turn,) and 

 immediately begins to walk fonvard again, after having 

 turned half round : this lesson is repeated till the dogs 

 make no fault. The term ho, ho, is then omitted, and 

 the hounds are taught to turn, the man keeping at a 

 greater distance, but yet so as to be heard by them. 

 When the dogs perfectly comprehend all the above in- 

 structions, they are made to repeat, in one lesson, all 

 the manoeuvres they have learned in several. After this, 

 they are taught to stop, though the man at their head 

 continues to walk on : in this lesson he stops the dogs, 

 crying back, and facing them ; he then retires backward, 

 keeping them on the spot by the word bad'. If a dog 

 advances, he calls him by his name, and cries back ; one 

 of the men on the flanks, in like manner, repeats his 

 name, and if he does not obey, he applies the whip, 

 crying back, and adding ventre a la meute (get back to 

 the pack.) When they are all attentive, the leader turns 

 round and calls them, saying, come along, come along — 

 ho, ho, ho ! When they have reached him, he immedi- 

 ately faces them, cries back, and snaps his fingers to 

 animate them. He then turns again, calling them with 

 come along, Jind softly. After they have practised this 

 lesson several days, and learned to execute it properly, 

 it is thus varied : — The man at the head, still walking 

 forward, and without turning, checks the hounds with 

 softly, softly, and back, and continues his way. The 

 two men on the flanks are obliged to pay great attention 



