216 RED DEER. 



But it sometimes happens that a hare 

 escapes from the net, not getting sufficiently 

 entangled, and she remembers it ever after- 

 wards, and tries hard the next time for her 

 life. The marks of the struggle are plainly 

 visible on the wet ground next morning 

 the marks of her pads as she raced round 

 and round the field, refusing to be driven 

 by the lurcher through the gateway, where 

 she now suspects danger. Round and round 

 she flies, endeavouring to gain sufficiently 

 on the dog to be able to leap at some 

 favourable place in the hedge, and so to 

 get through and away. Sometimes she can- 

 not do it; the lurcher overtakes her, and 

 either seizes her, or forces her to the net ; 

 sometimes she increases her distance suffi- 

 ciently, leaps at the hedge, is through and 

 safe. It is the hedge and wall that trouble 

 her so ; she cannot put forth her swiftest 

 pace and go right away; she must course 



