10 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
then, we must be brief, and will here be content with 
quoting the following remarks of Mr. Earle in his 
edition of the Saxon Chronicle. “ Now-a-days,” he 
says, “men hunt for exercise and sport, but then ° 
they hunted for food, or for the luxury of fresh meat. 
Now the flight of the beast is the condition of a good 
hunt, but in those days it entailed disappointment. 
They had neither the means of giving chase or of 
killing them at a distance, so they used stratagem to 
bring the game within the reach of their missiles. 
A labyrinth of alleys was penned out at a convenient 
part of the wood, and here the archers lay under 
covert. The hunt began by sending men round to 
break and beat the wood, and drive the game with 
dogs and horns into the ambuscade. The pen is the 
haia so frequently occurring amongst the silvw of 
Domesday. Horns were used, not, as with us, to call 
the dogs, or, as in France, to signal the stray sports- 
man; but to scare the game. In fact it was the battue, 
which is now, under altered circumstances, dis- 
countenanced by the authorities of the chase, but 
which, in early times, was the only way for man to 
cope with the beasts of the field.” Such, at least, 
was the course usually adopted. Particular animals, 
however, were hunted in a particular manner, and 
to some of these modes we shall have occasion to 
refer later. 
