Part 50

Bashful Beauty Beldam Blowsy Bluebell Brimstone Busy Buxom

C. _dogs_.

Captain Carver Charon Chaser Chanter Chieftain Chimer Clinker Comrade Comus Constant Coxcomb Crasher Crowner Cruiser Crusty Cryer

C. _bitches_.

Careless Charmer Chantress Clio Comely Crafty Crazy Crony

D. _dogs_.

Damper Danger Dasher Dashwood Driver Duster

D. _bitches_.

Dainty Darling Dashaway Dauntless Dian Dulcet

E. _dogs_.

Eager Earnest

E. _bitches_.

Easy Endless

F. _dogs_.

Factor Fervent Finder Flasher Fleecer Flippant Foamer Forward

F. _bitches_.

Faithful Fairmaid Fearless Fickle Fidget Firetail Flighty Flourish Fretful Frisky Frolic Fury

G. _dogs_.

Gainer Gallant Gimcrack Glancer Glider Growler Grumbler

G. _bitches_.

Gayless Giddy Gladsome Graceful

H. _dogs_.

Hardy Havoc Hazard Headstrong Hearty Hector Hero Hopeful Hotspur

H. _bitches_.

Hasty Handsome Harlot Helen

J. _dogs_.

Jingler Jockey Jolly Judgment

J. _bitches_.

Joyful.

L. _dogs_.

Lasher Leader Lictor Lifter Lightfoot Lounger Lusty

L. _bitches_.

Lawless Lively Lofty Lovely

M. _dogs_.

Marksman Marplot Match’em Meddler Mendall Merlin Messmate Monarch Motley Mounter Mungo

M. _bitches_.

Madcap Magic Minion Mischief Music

N. _dogs_.

Nestor Nettler Newsman Nimrod Noble Nonsuch

N. _bitches_.

Nimble Noisy Novice

P. _dogs_.

Pealer Perfect Phœbus Pilgrim Pilot Piper Playful Prattler Presto Primate Prowler Prosper

P. _bitches_.

Patience Placid Pliant Precious Priestess Prudence

R. _dogs_.

Racer Rambler Random Ranger Ransack Ranter Rattler Rector Render Rifler Ringwood Risker Rockwood Rouser Rover Rumbler Rusher

R. _bitches_.

Racket Rapid Rattle Ruin Rummage

S. _dogs_.

Samson Saunter Scalper Scamper Scourer Scramble Scuffler Sharper Shifter Singer Skirmish Smoker Songster Soundwell Spanker Spinner Spoiler Sportsman Squabbler Squeaker Steady Stickler Stringer Stripling Striver Stroker Struggler Sturdy Sylvan

S. _bitches_.

Sappho Skilful Speedy Spitfire Sportful Sprightly Stately Strumpet Sybil

T. _dogs_.

Tackler Tamer Tangent Tartar Tattler Taunter Teaser Terror Thrasher Thumper Thwacker Tickler Tomboy Topper Torrent Touchstone Trampler Trimbush Trimmer Trojan Trouncer Truant Trueboy Trueman Trusty Tryall Tuner Twig’em

T. _bitches._

Tattle Telltale Tempest Termagant Testy Trifle Trollop Truelass Tuneful

V. _dogs._

Vagrant Valid Vaulter Venture Vexer Victor Vigorous Viper Volant Voucher

V. _bitches._

Vanquish Venomous Vicious Vivid Vixen Vocal

W. _dogs._

Warbler Warrior Wayward Wellbred Whynot Wildair Wildman Wilful Woodman Workman Wrangler Wrestler

W. _bitches._

Waggery Waggish Wagtail Wanton Warfare Warlike Waspish Watchful Welcome Whimsey Wildfire Wishful Worry Wrathful.

_Brown_—_Whitaker_—_Beckford, &c._

HOUND, _v._ To set on the chase; to hunt, to pursue.

HOUR, _s._ The twenty-fourth part of a natural day; the space of sixty minutes.

HOURGLASS, _s._ A glass filled with sand, which, running through a narrow hole, marks the time.

HOUSE, _v._ To harbour, to admit to residence; to shelter, to keep under a roof; to take shelter, to keep the abode.

HOUSEDOG, _s._ A mastiff kept to guard the house.

HOUSING, _s._ Cloth originally used to keep off dirt, now added to saddles as ornamental.

HOWL, _v._ To cry as a wolf or dog; to utter cries in distress.

HOWL, _s._ The cry of a wolf or dog; the cry of a human being in horror.

HOY, _s._ A large boat, sometimes with one deck.

HUCHO, _s._ A fish of the genus Salmo.

The hucho is the most predatory fish of the salmo genus, and is made like an ill-fed trout, but longer and thicker. He has larger teeth, more spines in the pectoral fin, a thicker skin, a silvery belly, and dark spots only on the back and sides. I have never seen any on the fins. The ratio of his length to the girth is as eight to eighteen, or, in well-fed fish, as nine to twenty; and a fish, eighteen inches long by eight in girth, weighed 16,215 grains. Another, two feet long, eleven inches in girth, and three inches thick, weighed 4lbs. 2¼ oz. Another, twenty-six inches long, weighed 5lbs. 5oz. Of the spines in the fins, the anal has nine, the caudal twenty, the ventral nine, the dorsal twelve, the pectoral seventeen: having numbered the spines in many, I give this as correct. The fleshy fin belonging to the genus is, I think, larger in this species than in any I have seen. Bloch, in his work on fishes, states, that there are black spots on all the fins, with the exception of the anal, as a character of this fish: and professor Wagner informs me, he has seen huchoes with this peculiarity; but, as I said before, I never saw any fish with spotted fins; yet, I have examined those of the Danube, Save, Drave, Mur, and Izar: perhaps, this is peculiar to some stream in Bavaria; yet the huchoes in the collection at Munich have it not. The hucho is found in most rivers tributary to the Danube—in the Save and Laybach rivers always; yet the general opinion is, that they run from the Danube twice a year, in spring and autumn. I can answer for their migration in spring, having caught several in April, in streams connected with the Save and Laybach rivers, which had evidently come from the still dead water into the clear running streams, for they had the winter leech, or louse, of the trout upon them; and I have seen them of all sizes in April in the market at Laybach, from six inches to two feet long; but they are found much larger, and reach thirty, or even forty pounds. It is the opinion of some naturalists that it is only a fresh-water fish; yet this I doubt, because it is never found beyond certain falls—as in the Traun, the Drave, and the Save; and, there can be no doubt, comes into these rivers from the Danube; and probably in its largest state, is a fish of the Black Sea. Yet it can winter in fresh water; and does not seem, like the salmon, obliged to haunt the sea, but falls back into the warmer waters of the great rivers; from which it migrates in spring, to seek a cooler temperature, and to breed. The fishermen at Gratz say they spawn in the Mur, between March and May. In those I have caught at Laybach, which, however, were small ones, the ova were not sufficiently developed to admit of their spawning that spring. Marsigli says that they spawn in the Danube in June. You have seen how violently they pursue their prey; I have never taken one without fish in his stomach; yet, when small, they will take a fly. In the Kleingraben, which is a feeder to the Laybach river, and where they are found of all sizes—from twenty pounds downwards—the little ones take a fly, but the large ones are too ravenous to care about so insignificant a morsel, and prey like the largest trout, often hunting in company, and chasing the small fish into the narrow and shallow streams, and then devouring them.

The hucho, as you have seen, preys with great violence, and pursues his object as a foxhound or a greyhound does. I have seen him in repose; they lie like pikes, perfectly still, and I have watched one for many minutes, that never moved at all. In this respect their habits resemble those of most carnivorous and predatory animals. It is probably in consequence of these habits, that they are so much infested by lice, or leeches, which I have seen so numerous in spring as almost to fill their gills, and interfere with their respiration, in which case they seek the most rapid and turbulent streams to free themselves from these enemies. They are very shy, and, after being hooked, avoid the baited line. I once saw the hucho, for which I was fishing, follow the small fish, and then the lead of the tackle; it seemed as if this had fixed his attention, and he never offered at the bait afterwards. I think a hucho that has been pricked by the hook becomes particularly cautious, and possesses, in this respect, the same character as the salmon. In summer, when they are found in the roughest and most violent currents, their fins (particularly the caudal fin) often appear worn and broken; at this season they are usually in constant motion against the stream, and are stopped by no cataract or dam, unless it be many feet in height, and quite inaccessible. In the middle of September, I have caught huchoes perfectly clean in rapid cool streams, tributary to the Laybach and the Save rivers; and, from the small development of their generative system at this time, I have no doubt that they spawn in spring. On the 13th of September, 1828, I caught, by spinning the small dead fish, three huchoes that had not a single leech upon their bodies, and they were the first fish of the kind I ever saw free from these parasites.

They migrate generally when the water is foul, and, except in the spring and autumn, do not so readily run at the bait. I was once nearly a month seeking for one in rivers in which they are found, between the end of June and that of July, without being able to succeed in even seeing one alive; and, as far as my information goes, the two places where there is most probability of taking them, are at Laybach and Ratisbon, in the tributary streams to the Save, and in the Danube; and the best time, in the first of these situations, is in March and April, and, in the second, in May. I am told, likewise, that the Izar, which runs by Munich, is a stream where they may be caught, when the water is clear: and I have seen in the fish market at Munich very large huchoes.

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I am inclined to believe that the hucho is to be found in some of the mountain loughs in Connaught. Certainly I have seen fish of the salmo genus, taken in rivers communicating with deep lakes in the hills, which strikingly resemble the fish described by Sir Humphry.—_Salmonia_—_Editor._

HUE, _s._ Colour, dye; a clamour, a legal pursuit.

HULK, _s._ The body of a ship; anything bulky and unwieldy.

HUMBLEBEE, _s._ A buzzing wild bee; an herb.

HUMOUR, _s._ Moisture; the different kinds of moisture in man’s body. _Humours of the eye_ are these—the _aqueous or watery_, which lies in the forepart of the globe; the _crystalline_, next to the _aqueous_; and the _vitreous or glassy_ humour, which is larger than the rest, and fills the backward cavity of the eye.—_Crabbe._

HUNT, _v._ To chase wild animals; to pursue, to follow close; to search for; to direct or manage hounds in the chase.

Hunting among the Britons is of great antiquity. Dio Nicæus, speaking of the inhabitants of the northern parts of this island, tells us, they were a fierce and barbarous people, who tilled no ground, but lived upon the depredations they committed in the southern districts, or upon the food they procured by hunting. Strabo also says, that the dogs bred in Britain were highly esteemed upon the continent, on account of their excellent qualities or hunting; and these qualities, he seems to hint, were natural to them, and not the effect of tutorage by their foreign masters.

After the expulsion of the Danes, and during the short restoration of the Saxon monarchy, the sports of the field still maintained their ground. Edward the Confessor, whose disposition seems rather to have been suited to the cloister than to the throne, would join in no other secular amusements; but he took the greatest delight, says William of Malmsbury, “to follow a pack of swift hounds in pursuit of game, and to cheer them with his voice.”

During the tyrannical government of William the Norman, and his two sons who succeeded him, the restrictions concerning the killing of game were increased. The privilege of hunting in the royal forests was confined to the king and his favourites; and, to render these receptacles for the beasts of the chase more capacious, or to make new ones, whole villages were depopulated, and places of divine worship overthrown.

King John was particularly attached to the sports of the field; and his partiality for fine horses, hounds, and hawks, is evident, from his frequently receiving such animals, by way of payment, instead of money, for the renewal of grants, fines, and forfeitures, belonging to the crown.

Edward III. took so much delight in hunting, that even at the time he was engaged in war with France, and resident in that country, he had with him in his army sixty couple of stag hounds, and as many hare hounds, and every day he amused himself with hunting or hawking.

James I. preferred the amusement of hunting to hawking or shooting. It is said of this monarch, that he divided his time betwixt his standish, his bottle, and his hunting; the last had his fair weather, the two former his dull and cloudy.

It would be a needless task, to quote the passages in the poetical and prose writings of the last three centuries, which prove that this favourite pastime has lost nothing of its relish in modern times, but, on the contrary, seems to be more generally practised.

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If you have the whole country to yourself, and can hunt on either side of your house, as you please, never (when you can help it) fix your place of hunting till you see what the weather is.

Before a huntsman goes into the kennel to draft his hounds, let him determine within himself the number of hounds he intends to take out; as likewise the number of young hounds that he can venture in the country where he is going to hunt. Different countries may require different hounds: some may require more hounds than others. It is not an easy matter to draft hounds properly; nor can any expedition be made in it without some method.

When the place of meeting and time are fixed, every huntsman ought to be as exact to them as it is possible for him to be. On no account is he to be before the time; yet, on some occasions, it might be better, perhaps, for the diversion, were he permitted to be after it. The course your huntsman intends to take in drawing ought always to be well understood before he leaves the kennel.

If your huntsman, without inconvenience, can begin drawing at the farthest cover down the wind, and so draw from cover to cover up the wind till you find, let him do it.—_Vide_ COVER.

While hounds are drawing for a fox, let your people place themselves in such a manner that he cannot go off unseen. I have known them lie in sheep’s scrapes on the side of hills, and in small bushes, where huntsmen never think of looking for them; yet, when they hear a hound, they generally shift their quarters, and make for closer covers. Gentlemen should take this necessary part of fox-hunting on themselves, for the whipper-in has other business to attend to.

Huntsmen, whilst their hounds are drawing, or are at fault, frequently make so much noise themselves, that they can hear nothing else: they should always have an ear to a halloo. I once saw an extraordinary instance of the want of it in my own huntsman, who was making so much noise with his hounds, which were then at fault, that a man hallooed a long while before he heard him; and when he did hear him, so little did he know whence the halloo came, that he rode a couple of miles the wrong way, and lost the fox.

Though a huntsman ought to be as silent as possible at going into a cover, he cannot be too noisy at 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 he will leave many of them behind him; and should he turn down the wind, he may see no more of them.

There are times when hounds should be helped, and at all times they must be kept forward: hounds will naturally tire on a cold scent, when stopped by sheep, or other impediments; and when they are no longer able to get forward, will oftentimes hunt the old scent back again, if they find that they can hunt no other. It is the judicious encouraging of hounds to hunt when they cannot run, and the preventing them from losing time by hunting too much when they might run, that distinguishes a good sportsman from a bad one. Hounds that have been well taught will cast forward to a hedge of their own accord: but you may assure yourself this excellence is never acquired by such as are left entirely to themselves.

Though I like to see fox-hounds cast wide and forward, and dislike to see them pick a cold scent through flocks of sheep to no purpose, yet I must beg leave to observe, that I dislike still more to see that unaccountable hurry which huntsmen will sometimes put themselves into the moment their hounds are at fault. Time ought always to be allowed them to make their own cast; and if a huntsman is judicious, he will take that opportunity to consider what part he himself has next to act; but instead of this, I have seen hounds hurried away the very instant they came to a fault, a wide cast made, and the hounds at last brought back again to the very place from whence they were so abruptly taken, and where, if the huntsman had had a minute’s patience, they would have hit off the scent themselves.

When your huntsman makes a cast, I hope he makes it perfect one way before he tries another, as much time is lost by going backwards and forwards. You will see huntsmen, when a forward cast does not succeed, come slowly back again: they should return as fast as they can.

In large covers, if there are many roads, in bad scenting days, when these roads are dry, or after a thaw, when they carry, it is necessary your huntsman should be near to his hounds to help them, and hold them forward. Foxes will run the roads at these times, and hounds cannot always own the scent. When they are at fault on a dry road, let not your huntsman turn back too soon; let him not stop till he can be certain that the fox is not gone on. The hounds should try on both sides the road at once: if he perceives that they try on one side only, on his return let him try the other.

If a fox runs up the wind when first found, and afterwards turns, he seldom, if ever, turns again. This observation may not only be of use to your huntsman in his cast, but may be of use to you, if you should lose the hounds.

When you are pursuing a fox over a country, the scent being bad, and the fox a long way before, without ever having been pressed, if his point should be for strong earths that are open, or for large covers, where game is in plenty, it may be acting wisely to take off the hounds at the first fault they come to; for the fox will go many miles to your one, and probably will run you out of all scent; but if he should not, you will be likely to change at the first cover you come into: when a fox has been hard pressed, it is my opinion, that he never should be given up.

A perfect knowledge of his country certainly is a great help to a huntsman: if yours, as yet, has it not, great allowance ought to be made.

In a country where there are large earths, a fox that knows the country, and tries any of them, seldom fails to try the rest. A huntsman may take advantage of this; they are certain casts, and may help him to get nearer to his fox.

Great caution is necessary when a fox runs into a village: if he is hallooed there, get forward as fast as you can. Foxes, when tired, will lie down anywhere, and are often lost by it. A wide cast is not the best to recover a tired fox with tired hounds: they should hunt him out, inch by inch, though they are ever so long about it.