| [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,