The bowels or guts were often reserved, and put on a large wooden fork, and the hounds were allowed to have this as a sort of dessert after they had finished their portion. They were halloaed to by the huntsman whilst he held the fork high in the air with cries of _Tally ho!_ or _Tiel haut!_ or _Lau, lau!_ This tit-bit was then thrown to them. This was called giving them the _forhu_, from the word _forthuer_, to whoop or holloa loudly. Probably our term of giving the hounds the holloa was derived from this. It was done to accustom the hounds to rally round the huntsman when excited by a similar halloaing when they were hunting, and had lost the line of the hunted beast. In some instances the daintiest morsels were reserved for the King or chief personage, and for this purpose placed on a large wooden fork as they were taken from the deer. The vein of the heart and the small fillets attached to the loins (Turbervile says also the haunches, part of the nombles and sides) should also be kept for the lord, but these were generally recognised as the perquisites of the huntsmen, kennelmen, foresters, or parkers. EXCREMENTS, fumes, fewmets, obs. term for the droppings of deer. From the Fr. _fumées_. G. de F. says that the droppings of all deer, including fallow and roe deer, are to be called _fumées_. The "Master of Game," no doubt following the custom then prevalent in England, says the droppings of the hart only are to be called fumes, and of the buck and the roebuck croties. The following names are given to droppings by-- GASTON DE FOIX AND MASTER OF GAME Of the hart } Of the hart--Fumes. " buck } Fumées " buck } " roebuck } " roebuck } Croteys. " bear } " wild boar } " wild boar } Laisses. " black beasts } Lesses. " wolf } " wolves } " hare and conies--Crotes. " hare and Conies--Croties. " fox, badger, and } " fox--The wagging. stinking beasts } Fiantes. " grey or badger--The Wardrobe. " otter--Spraintes. " stinking beasts--The Drit. " otter--Spraintes. Other forms of this term are: fewmets, fewmishing, crotels, crotisings, freyn, fuants, billetings, and spraits.