This document describes T.H. White's account of an English boar hunt with different types of hunting dogs. It discusses the dogs used - lymers which were bloodhound mixes, alaunts which looked like greyhounds with bull terrier heads, braches like beagles, and two gaze-hounds. It then describes the hunt in stages - setting out with the gaze-hounds on leads, the lymers straining as they neared the boar's lair, the dogs being unleashed and giving chase as the boar is reared, the boar at bay with the dogs in a frenzy, and finally the dogs being rewarded after with food after the hunt.

1. English Boar Hunting
Dog Pack
as Described by T.H White

2. Lymer
… lymers were a sort of
mixture between
bloodhound and red
setters of today.

3. Alaunt
… half a dozen black and
white alaunts, which looked
like greyhounds with the
heads of bull-terriers or
worse

4. Brach(et)
The braches were like
beagles, and trotted along with
the master in the way that
beagles always have trotted,
and a charming way it is.

5. Gaze-hounds
The gaze-hounds, of
which there were two
taken just in case…

6. Preparation
The hounds were
alaunts, gaze-hounds,
lymers and braches,
They were called
Clumsy, Trowneer,
Phoebe, Colle,
Gerland, Talbot, Luath,
Luffra, Apollon,
Orthros, Bran, Gelert,
Bounce, Boy Lion
Bungey, Toby, and
Diamond. The Wart’s
own special one was
called Cavall

7. Setting Out
The [gazehounds]
had collars on, and
were led with straps…

8. Rearing
He watched the
lymerer who held the
two bloodhound dogs
on their leashes, and
saw the dogs straining
more and more as the
boar’s lair was
approached
… and saw Master Twyti
wave silently to the
lymerer to uncouple his
hounds

9. Giving Chase
He remembered the rank mane of bristles standing upright
on its razor back, one flash of a sour tush, the staring ribs,
the head held low, and the red flame from a piggy eye
The alaunts were uncoupled
as the exciting notes of the
menee began to ring
through the forest
The lymers which had reared the
boar – the proper word for
dislodging – were allowed to
pursue him to make them keen on
their work

10. … at Bay
Sto arere! So howe, so howe! Ho moy, ho moy, hole, hole, hole,
hole
The lymer was taken
up by the tenor bells
of the braches. The
noises grew to a
crescendo of
excitement as the
blood-thirsty thunder
of the aluant pealed
through the lesser
notes

11. Undoing
We all know that the hounds
are rewarded with a fouail, or
mixture of bowels and bread
cooked over a fire

12. English Boar Hunting
Dog Pack
Six
Alaunts
Two Gaze
Hounds
Two
Lymers
Six Brachs

13. The Boar
Chasse au
Sanglier