290 HUNTING DIRECTORY. 



French MothoU of 



at this moment, to keep the dogs in exact order, caUing 

 them by name, and chastising such as are in fault. 

 When they are all quiet, the man at the head calls them 

 to him, and faces them when they have reached him. 



A docility still more complete is obtained, if the man 

 at the head walks forward without giving any orders, 

 and the man in the rear checks and stops the dogs with 

 the words softly, and hack ; though the first continues 

 advancing, and must not halt, except at the command of 

 the second, for the purpose of turning half round, calling 

 the hounds to him, and facing. 



The hounds being stopped in this manner by the 

 whipper-in in the rear, and setting oiF again at the com- 

 mand of him at the head, to join him, the former checks 

 them a second time by the same terms, and stops them 

 in full career, notwithstanding the continued progression 

 of the latter. 



All this being perfectly well comprehended and exe- 

 cuted, the pack is exercised in returns, commanded alter- 

 nately by the men at the head and in the rear. For this 

 purpose, the latter suffers the hounds and the other 

 three conductors to proceed forward, to the distance of 

 fifty or sixty yards, and then calls to them to return. 

 The first who, at the moment of recal, turns about and 

 stands still, while the pack executes the movement 

 directed, waits till they are within ten yards of him who 

 commanded it, and then cries bacl\ As soon as they 

 have stopped, he calls to them to return ; and when they 

 are within ten yards of him, the other renews the same 

 command. While this manoeuvre is repeated several 

 times alternately, by those in the front and rear, the men 

 on the flanks are stationary. 



