The Sportsman's Dictionary (Volume 2); Or, the Country Gentleman's Companion, in All Rural Recreations with Full and Particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. with the Method of Breeding, Curing, Dieting, and Ordering (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1735. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Proper Terms for the Noises of Hounds. When hounds are first cast off, and find some game or chace, we fay they challenge. Jf they are too busy before they find the scent good, it is faid they babble. . If they run it end-ways, orderly, making it good, and then hold in together merrily, they are faid to be in full cry. When spaniels open in the string (or a grey-hound in Different Terms for Hou Of grey-hounds two make a brace; of hounds a couple; of grey-hounds three make a least}; and of hounds a couple and a half; they fay let jlip a grey-hound, and cajl off a hound. They call the string, wherein a grey-hound is led, a lease; and that of a' hound, a learn, Ham, or lyome. The grey-hound hath his collar, and the hound his couples. Pf hounds they fay a kennel, of beagles Tl pack. Those places are called entries where they find a deer has lately pasted into thickets, by which they guess at their largeness, and then put the hounds or beagles thereto for their view. A layer is a place where any deer has reposed or harboured. When the hounds or beagles hit the seent of their chace epnfrary, as to Jut it up the V/jnd, when they should hit his course) they fay they lapse. When hounds hang behind, and beat too much upon the scent, or place, they fay they plod. When they have either earthed a vermin, or brought a deer, boar, or the like, to turn head against them, they are faid to bay. Nds and Grey-hounds. it down, they fay they draw a mist. When hounds or beagles take fresh scent, hunting another chace, until they stick and hit it again, they fay they hunt change. When the hounds or beagles hunt it by the heel, they fay they hunt counter. When the chace goes off, and comes on again traversing the fame ground to deceive the hounds or beagles, they fay they hunt the foi...