Appendix V.

THE USE OF THE HORN.

By H. H. Howard-Vyse.

With beagles the horn should be used sparingly, and, except at a kill, for one purpose only, to call hounds to one. There is little more to be said except that the sound of the horn carries a very short distance, and that it should therefore be blown with all the strength that the huntsman’s lungs permit. To call hounds to one when drawing or casting, a short blast is usually employed; to bring them on to the line of a viewed hare, the note should be a longer one causing more excitement; the same applies to the occasion of a kill; and, in calling hounds together at the end of the day, it is well to use a long-drawn-out note with a die-away tinge in it.

FOOTNOTES

As a matter of fact this is incorrect. The actual number of subscribers in 1859 was 58.

Purchased at end of season by W. Milner (the late Sir W. Milner).

How interesting to hear of troubles with farmers nearly sixty years ago! The author can definitely state that to-day (season 1921-22) only one field is forbidden to the E.C.H.

Eton College Chronicle.

Mistake for Hon. G. Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby. Lord C. Cavendish-Bentinck was first whip next year (1887).

Notable exceptions were G. W. Barclay (killed in the War), son of Mr. E. E. Barclay, M.F.H. the Puckeridge, and K. S. M. Gladstone, who had had a pack of his own in Essex before he went to Eton. These two Masters of the E.C.H. undoubtedly did a very great deal to bring the pack to a high standard.

To-day the season begins, subject to the Head Master’s permission, on Oct. 15th.

The late Mr. F. H. Rawlins.

Trinity Foot Beagles.

Since Barnett-Barker’s days the subscription has been lowered to £1 10s.

Perhaps this is a fitting place to mention that Bambridge & Co. by Windsor Bridge set up both masks and pads extremely well.

The record.

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