SPORTING TERMS. 



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1. Toho! 



2. Do^yn charge ! 



3. Back or heel ! 



4. Steady ! steady there ! 



5. Go on ! on ! 



6. Hold up ! up I 



7. Seek dead ! find dead bird I 



8. Fetch! 



9. Drop, sir ! 



10. To mouth a bird. 



11. To run wild. 



EXPI.AN'ATIOX OF THE ABOVE TERMS. 



1. To make pointers or setters come to a stand. 



" lie down while loading. 



" go behind. 



" oaroful when game is about. 



" vise — a term of encouragement, 



" hold his head up so as to wind :ke game. 



" look for a dead bird. 



" bring the dead bird. 



" deliver up the dead bird. 



10. To bite or chew a bird severely. 



11. To run heedlessly, without caution. 



By a pair is understood two of the same kind or species united or paired by 

 nature, male and female. Therefore, how evidently wrong it is to say a pait 

 of pointers, or a pair of setters! 



By a couple, or brace, is understood the involuntary union of two individual 

 companions of the same species, either by a chain, noose, or tio. 



PARTRIDGES. 



A covey of partridges or birds. 

 A brace of " " 



To spring or flush " " 



A brood of grouse. 

 A pack of " 

 A brace of " 



A couple of woodcocks. 



A brace and a half of partridges oi 

 birds. 



GROUSE. 



A leash of grouse. 

 To raise a " 



WOODCOCKS. 



A flight or fall of woodcocks. 

 A couple and a half of woodcocks. To flush or start a woodcock. 



SNIPE OR PLOVER. 



A wisp or walk of snipes. A couple and a half ol snipes or 



A wing or congregation of plovers. plovers. 



A couple of snipes or plovers. To spring a snipe or plover. 



