176 MANAGEMENT IN THE FIELD 



of what may be expected from hounds accustomed to 

 run anything from a red-deer to a red-herring ! 



Friendship, like love, is but a name, 

 Unless to one you stint the flame. 



And this is equally true of hare-hunting. The harrier 

 must be stinted to one flame or scent. 



Now concerning the management of the pack in the 

 field. Noise must be avoided ; draw quietly, whether 

 stubble or grass, turnip or fallow field, hedge-row or 

 coppice. Allow of no views or view halloos. Notwith- 

 standing the mania for screeching like owls, '* Hollering," 

 as Jem said, ** can't be allowed at no price " ; and there- 

 fore the young Master and his new field, following Jem's 

 example with his new pack, had better come to an 

 understanding on that point at first starting, which will 

 save a deal of trouble afterwards ; and if the Master is 

 resolute, as he ought to be in this respect, and takes his 

 hounds home just three times following, when the 

 screeching commences, his rule will be established nem. 

 con. Vice versa, he will be thought a good-tempered 

 fool, and his harriers hunted in turn by every man in 

 the field who gets the first start. 



Now in drawing for a hare, whether in coppice or 

 hedge-row, or crossing the hounds over fallow or open 

 ground, there is no occasion for the Yoicksings or Hoicks- 

 ings so vociferously used by huntsmen to fox-hounds. 

 Harriers will show by their movements or tongues 

 whether their game is near at hand or not ; and as hares 

 will often lie like stones until absolutely whipped out 

 of their forms, silence and patience are both required, 

 or you may draw over half-a-dozen in a day, where they 

 are tolerably abundant. Beat thoroughly every nook 



