Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — Vernacular of the Chase. [ARTICLE]

Vernacular of the Chase.

There is no more discerning class than the sportsmen. The vernacular of the chase as they have Invented it Is oddly appropriate to its objects. There is a smack of the soil and a breath of the salt water in the terms employed. Usually there is something quaintly appropriate to the habits of wild animals in the phrases with which they are lumped together, nere is a list which gives very adequate suggestion of the vernacular of tl>,9 open scasou; A covey of partridges. A hide of pheasants. A whisp of snipe. A flight of doves or swallow* A muster of peacocks. A siege of herons. A building of rocks. A brood of grouse. A plump of wild fowl. A stand of plovers. A watch of nightingales. A clattering of doughs. A flock of geese. A herd or bunch of cattle. A bevy of quails. A cast of hawks. A trip of dottrel. A swarm of bees. A school of whales. A school of herrings. A herd of swine. A skulk of foxes. A pack of wolves. A drove of oxen. A sounder of hogs. A troop of monkeys. A pride of lions. A sleuth of bears. A gang of elk. —New York Mail and Express.