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is up. — Gentlemen, keep your mouths shut, and 

 your ears open. 



7. The fox has broke covert : you see him. — 

 Gentlemen, gentlemen, do not roar out " Tally ho ! " 

 do not screech horribly. If you do, he will turn 

 back, even under your horse's feet, in spite of the 

 sad and disappointed look on your handsome or 

 ugly faces. Do not crack your infernal whips, be 

 silent. Harden your hearts and look happy. 



8. He is gone away in earnest, the hounds well 

 at him. Now go it, my lads, as straight as ye can. 

 By all means avoid the roads and lanes ; many a 

 good run has been lost on our hunting-grounds by 

 the tremendous paviours of M'Adam's handy works : 

 the hounds are running inside a fence, you are 

 riding best pace on the road outside : they try to 

 cross the road ; you head them or force them on, 

 the fox is lost — you are done. 



9. If the chase runs the road — gentlemen, allow 

 the huntsman to take the lead ; but if he is not 

 where he should be — that is, with his hounds — 

 allow some good sportsman, who may happen to 

 know the hounds, to take it. If the hounds, when 

 running a road, stop at a fence, do not yoicks and 

 hallo on them : you will drive those spirited animals 

 over the fence, when most probably the fox has 

 only tried it and gone on the road. Gentlemen, 

 you must be particularly careful in the roads and 

 lanes ; they are the devil, and spoil many a good 

 chase. 



10. A Check. — Allow your hounds to make their 



