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 to him.
Dwelling.—When hounds do not come up to the huntsman’s halloo till moved by the whipper-in, they are said to dwell.
Drafted.—Hounds drawn from the pack to be disposed of, or hung, are drafted.
“Earths are drawn.”—When a vixen fox has drawn out fresh earth, it is a proof she intends to lay up her cubs there.
Eye to hounds.—A man has a good eye to hounds who turns his horse’s head with the leading hounds.
Flighty.—A hound that is not a steady hunter.
Feeling a scent.—You say, if scent is bad, “The hounds could scarcely feel the scent.”
Foil.—When a fox runs the ground over which he has been before, he is running his foil.