Hounds in Old Days
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n.-st must l)e kept In couples and un- coupled when the fox is found, all save two couple of the slowest, which must be kept at heel with one couple of terriers. The other couple of terriers to 140 with the pack.
The old fox being well breathed is so for- cible a chase [so swift a quarry] that every huntsman's part is to hew him or back hini into covert again when he offereth to break the same " " Ribble hounds" were no doubt of the Lancashire l)reed,'''' this name being derived from the distri...ct ot Lancashire watered by its principal river Sir Thomas Cockaine knew the delights of a gallop across country ; he mentions by way of illustrating " the Hying of this quarry" that he had killed a fox above ground wiik hounds fourteen miles from the covert whence he had been })ushed by the pack in spite of endeavours to " hew and back " hini in ao-ain I have italicised the words " with hounds, ' because much sicrnificance attaches thereto.
* The Duke of Newcastle, in his work A New Method to Dress Horses, published 1667, makes reference to " The Lancashire Hound " in terms which indicate that it was a well known breed in his time 79 CockciiiiL', clearly, wishes the reader to imder- stcintl that the fox was killed by the hounds which drew the covert — the "foxhounds" — • not the i^Teyhounds which waited outside to be slipped.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
n.-st must l)e kept In couples and un- coupled when the fox is found, all save two couple of the slowest, which must be kept at heel with one couple of terriers. The other couple of terriers to 140 with the pack.
The old fox being well breathed is so for- cible a chase [so swift a quarry] that every huntsman's part is to hew him or back hini into covert again when he offereth to break the same " " Ribble hounds" were no doubt of the Lancashire l)reed,'''' this name being derived from the distri...ct ot Lancashire watered by its principal river Sir Thomas Cockaine knew the delights of a gallop across country ; he mentions by way of illustrating " the Hying of this quarry" that he had killed a fox above ground wiik hounds fourteen miles from the covert whence he had been })ushed by the pack in spite of endeavours to " hew and back " hini in ao-ain I have italicised the words " with hounds, ' because much sicrnificance attaches thereto.
* The Duke of Newcastle, in his work A New Method to Dress Horses, published 1667, makes reference to " The Lancashire Hound " in terms which indicate that it was a well known breed in his time 79 CockciiiiL', clearly, wishes the reader to imder- stcintl that the fox was killed by the hounds which drew the covert — the "foxhounds" — • not the i^Teyhounds which waited outside to be slipped.
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