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[21] As soon as they are close on the tracks, let him cast them round,1 making many circles, and wherever they find the track dim, let him stick a pole in the ground as a mark, and beginning from this mark keep them together until they clearly recognise the track, encouraging and coaxing them.


1 Nowadays hounds are left to make their own cast and are only assisted when they fail to recover the line.

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