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APPENDIX.—B. 
When any animal is killed before hounds, the death halloo is 
invariably who-whoop ! 
When any animal turns on the hounds, he is at bay / 
When a Stag is driven by hounds to water, he soils ! 
When a Fox “ “ to ground, he earths / 
When an Otter, after diving, breaks water, he vents ! 
And, lastly, to correct some very common errors of parlance, 
—A Horse never runs ; he walks, ambles, trots, paces, canters, 
gallops. These are all bis paces. 
A Horse is % his sire, and out o/’his dam. Not vice versd , as 
the common phrase goes here. 
A male Horse is a stallion . 
A collection of Horses is a stud. The application of the latter 
term to the male Horse, is not merely vulgar squeamishness, but 
sheer nonsense. 
The female of a Fox is a vixen ; of a Dog, a bitch, not a slut; 
and the use of the latter word is far the more objectionable of 
the two, as implying an improper consciousness. 
