[1] “Tayho!” is the technical hunting halloa when a stag has broken cover, as is “Talliho!” the corresponding cry for the fox. Both words are corruptions from the French “Taillis Hors!” “Out of the thicket,” French being used to a very late day as the especial language of the chase.
[2] In Northumberland a few miles from the Scottish border.

“GRAHAM” TO JEREMY SHORT.

WINTER.

“When icicles hang by the wall,

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,

And Tom bears logs into the hall,