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one I practised. The hounds were never 

 permitted to hunt through difficulties; the 

 moment they came to a check they were 

 galloped away to some earth or covert, 

 either with the false notion of " giving him 

 a meeting " (as they termed it,) or else to 

 take the chance of his having gone into the 

 wood, cr of finding a fresh fox, which of 

 course was always claimed as the hunted 

 one. I was informed the pack were so ac- 

 customed to it, that the moment they came 

 to a check their heads were up, and they 

 were ready to start with the huntsman 

 wherever his genius might direct. This 

 beautiful pack, in consequence, never put 

 their noses down ; they had been so well 

 disciplined, that the words " heads up" 

 were unnecessary, but to get them down 

 again was impossible. 



Another wild system I witnessed in a 

 rural country : the hounds were running 

 their fox well, he was viewed by the hunts- 



