Graham's Magazine, Vol. XL, No. 2, February 1852

Note 1 — THE DEATH OF THE STAG;

Reading edition

“Tayho!” is the technical hunting halloa when a stag has broken cover, as is “Talliho!” the corresponding cry for the fox. Both words are corruptions from the French “Taillis Hors!” “Out of the thicket,” French being used to a very late day as the especial language of the chase.

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