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own cast : they do not hit it : then, huntsman, make 

 a forward one. If that will not do, use your own 

 judgment as to his having been headed, as to the 

 scent, wind, neighbouring earths, or strong coverts. 

 Do not make your casts, as is too often your 

 custom, at double quick time. In the enclosures 

 hounds will hit it away at a bank or fence, when 

 they cannot hunt it on the open ground. Some- 

 times hounds will hunt a scent heel better than 

 forward ; and look sharp and look to the old 

 working ones : but this is generally a lost case. 



11. Gentlemen, when the huntsman is making a 

 cast, sit quietly and sedately on your horses : do 

 not ride after him, and oh ! do not whistle : your 

 horses will stretch out their legs and do the 

 et cetera without that mouthy assistance : you need 

 not screw up your lips and look ugly. 



1 2. They have mended the fault ; they are going 

 again ; the scent is not so good. — Gentlemen, give 

 them room. The scent mends — quick — quicker : 

 they race ; have at him, my charmers : yonder he 

 goes, dead beat : he gains a small covert. Now, 

 gentlemen, do not be rash ; he runs short, dodges, 

 hunts the hounds. Be on your guard, ye hot and 

 fiery ones : do not hallo too much : — steady, steady ; 

 do not meet him in the path-ride. I once most un- 

 willingly saved the life of a fox, when Mr. Bulteel's 

 hounds were in the very act of catching him : he 

 ran against my horse in the path of a covert, then 

 turned short into the brushwood : the hounds would 

 have had him in a moment. I began most lustily 



