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where ił strikes twn blows and is said to "Irad a whole puli," namely, one blow at hand and .inolher at buck-sti oke. In the samo way each bel) strikes lwice when it teaches the i.ist place, where it issaidto "lie a whole pall behind." It will a!so be seeu that (on the same number of belts, of eourse) each beli docs the same “ work" For instanco, on four belts the treble goes into second's place, then into lhxrd’s, and then into fonrth’s place, where it strikes two blows, namely, the “whole puli behind”; ił tli en goes down into łhird’s, then into second‘s place, and then to lead, where it ieads a whole puli. The second beli does exacłly the same work, except that it hegins by leading iti> whole puli. The bells when working in this way, are said Lo be “hunting round" and the set, or cycle, of changes thus produced, is called the “hunting eourse."

!t should be noticed łlial on odd numbers of bells, the fint pairs of bells are changed. From 12345 the first change rnight be either 2 1 4 3 5 or 1 3 2 5 4; but the former is the right way lo begin, as the whole puli at the lead then com-mt/nces at hand-stroke. The whole puli behind on an cven number of helis is also at hand and baek-stroke, but on odd numbers, it begins at back and ends at band-stroke.

By thus cornmencing the changes on the ftrst pairs of bells we have the nde, which beginners must notę, that in going off into changes the “odd numbers hunt up, and even numbers hunt down."

Exerdse$. i recommend each learner to prick out the hunting eourse on each number of bells, umil he can do it wiihout referring fco the examples, and then to procecd to prick the changes on seven and eight bells in the same way, until roundsare produced. On seven bells, this will be in 14 changes; and on eight, in 16 changes.

The number of changes in the hunting eourse, on three or morę bells, is twice the number of bells used; thus, on three