y of a Huntsman," a book which
has only one fault, it is too short; and give some explanations of my
own.

HUNTSMAN'S LANGUAGE.

On throwing off.--_Cover hoick!_ i. e. _Hark into cover!_

Also--_Eloo in!_

Over the fence.--_Yoi over!_

To make hounds draw.--_Edawick!_

Also--_Yoi, wind him! Yoi, rouse him, my boys!_

And to a particular hound--_Hoick, Rector! Hoick, Bonny Lass!_

The variety of Tally-ho's I have given in another place.

To call the rest when some hounds have gone away.--_Elope forward,
aw-ay-woy!_

If they have hit off the scent.--_Forrid, hoick!_

When hounds have overrun the scent, or he wants them to come back to
him.--_Yo-geote!_

When the hounds are near their fox.--_Eloo, at him!_

HUNTING TERMS

_Billet._--The excrement of a fox.

_Burst._--The first part of a run.

_Burning scent._--When hounds go so fast, from the goodness of the
scent, they have no breath to spare, and run almost mute.

_Breast high._--When hounds do not stoop their heads, but go a racing
pace.

_Capping._--To wave your cap to bring on the hounds. Also to subscribe
for the huntsman, by dropping into a cap after a good run with
fox-hounds. At watering places, before a run with harriers.

_Carry a good head._--When hounds run well together, owing to the
scent being good, and spreading so wide that the whole pack can
feel it. But it usually happens that the scent is good only on the
line for one hound to get it, so that the rest follow him; hence
the necessity of keeping your eyes on the leading hounds, if you
wish to be forward.

_Challenge._--When drawing a fox, the first hound that gives tongue,
"challenges."

_Changed._--When the pack changed from the hunted fox to a fresh one.

_Check._--When hounds stop for want of scent in running, or over-run
it.

_Chopped a fox._--When a fox is killed in cover without running.

_Crash._--When in cover, every hound seems giving tongue at the same
moment: that is a crash of hounds.

_Cub._--Until November, a young fox is a cub.

_Drawing._--The act of hunting to find a fox in a cover, or covert, as
some term it.

_Drag._--The scent left by the footsteps of the fox on his way from
his rural rambles to his earth, or kennel. Our forefathers rose
early; and instead of drawing, hunted the fox by "dragging" up t