Talk:Tally-ho

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At this page (http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/13/messages/658.html) it says "Two hundred years ago, according to a magazine of that date, the English fox-hunter's cry was "Tallio, Hoix, Hark, Forward," which is a corruption of the French hunter's call. Four hundred years ago the French hunter encouraged his dogs with the musical cry of "Thia-hilaud a qui forheur!" sometimes printed "Tya-hillaut a qui forheur!" (These huntsmen's shouts are given in a quaint and rare old French book illustrated with the strange pictures of the day and entitled La Venerie de Jacques du Fouilloux, a Paris 1573.) From this the English manufactured "Tallio, hoix, hark, forward." Later it has been abbreviated to simply "Tally-ho."

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