his power, he then is a perfect Whipper-in. Every country is soon known, and nine Foxes out of ten with the Wind in the same Quarter, will follow the same Track, it is easy therefore, in most chases, for the Whipper-in who lies back, to cut short and catch the hounds again.

A Huntsman, although he ought to be silent as possible when his hounds go into a cover, cannot be too noisy at their coming out of it again; and if at any time he should turn back suddenly, let him give as much notice of it as he can to his hounds, or many will be left behind, and should he turn down the wind he may see no more of them.

Gentlemen are generally in too great haste when a Fox is first found, Hounds are always mad enough when they find, and the Enthusiasm attending this diversion, is at this Crisis particularly to be restrained; it is quite time enough for it to appear when hounds are away, and well settled to the scent. The Huntsman should set off with the foremost hounds, no hounds can then slip down the wind, and get out of his hearing; but in pressing hounds forward whilst the Scent is good, care is to be taken that they are not hurried beyond it when it is bad; he should keep so close to them as to enable him to see how far they carry the scent, without this, he can never make a Cast with any certainty. It is the Huntsman's business to be ready at all times to lend that assistance, which when they are first at a fault is then most critical, a Foxhound at that moment will exert himself most, he afterwards becomes more indifferent about his Game. Those Huntsmen

who do not get forward enough to take advantage of this Eagerness, and direct it properly, are seldom sufficiently skilled in hunting to be of much use to hounds afterwards.

With a high scent, hounds cannot be pushed on too much; Screams keep the Fox forward, the hounds together, or let in the tail hounds, they enliven the sport, but in Cover, should be given with the greatest caution; Halloos are of service when hounds are running up the wind, for then none but the tail hounds can hear them; when running down the wind, there should be no more halloos than are necessary to bring the Tail hounds forward, for hounds that know their Business, when upon a scent, rarely want Encouragement.

Halloo forward, is certainly a necessary one, but is used too indiscriminately; when hounds are never used to that Halloo until a Fox is found, they will then fly to it. Gone away, is a Halloo to denote when a Fox breaks cover, of course cannot be applied but upon that occasion, and it is highly proper this halloo should be loudly given, that Gentlemen who are kind enough to stay back to assist hounds, should have notice when they leave the Cover.

Changing from the hunted to a fresh Fox, is as untoward an accident as Foxhounds can meet with, and requires every observation to guard against and remedy it: the most difficult of all his Undertakings, is a Huntsman's distinguishing betwixt different Scents, and much precision is required to discern with any certainty, that of the hunted Fox. Huntsman should always listen to hounds whilst

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running in Cover, be particularly attentive to the headmost hounds, and constantly aware of a Skirter, for if there be two scents, he must be wrong. For the most part, the best scent is least likely to be that of the hunted Fox, and as a Fox seldom suffers hounds to run up to him, whilst able to prevent it, so four times out of five, when Foxes are halloo'd early in the day, they are all fresh ones. The hounds most probably right, are such as the Huntsman knows had the Lead before there arose any doubt of changing. The action of the Fox may also inform a Huntsman; if he breaks over an open Country, it is no sign of being hard pressed, a Fox is cautious of ever doing that unless greatly ahead of hounds; if he runs up the Wind, which a weak Fox long hunted, rarely attempts; if he runs the Foil, that also may direct him.

When hounds divide and are in two parts, the Whipper-in must wait for the Huntsman's halloo before he stops either. If there are many Scents, and it is quite uncertain which is the hunted Fox, he should stop those hounds that are the farthest down the wind, as they can hear the others, and will reach them soonest.

When hounds are at a Check, every one should be silent and stand still, the huntsman had better let the hounds alone, or content himself with holding them forward, without taking them off their -noses; should they continue at fault after having made their own Cast, (in which not a Word should -be said to them, and which the Huntsman should always first encourage them to do, as they will of