2 24 The Chase 



Now when they came unto the plot of ground, 

 Where stood the boar, hounds dead about him lay 

 Or sprawled about, bleeding from many a wound, 

 But still the others held him well at bay. 

 Nor had he been bested thus ere that day. 

 But yet, seeing Atys, straight he rushed at him. 

 Speckled with foam, bleeding in flank and limb. 



Willi am Morris, 



Hunting the Antelope in Persia <?- 



THE huntsmen proceed to a large plain, or 

 rather desert, near the sea-side ; they have 

 hawks and greyhounds ; the former carried in the 

 usual manner, on the hand of the huntsman ; the 

 latter led in a leash by a horseman, generally 

 the same who carries the hawk. When the ante- 

 lope is seen, they endeavour to get as near as 

 possible ; but the animal, the moment it observes 

 them, goes ofF at a rate that seems swifter than 

 the wind ; the horsemen are instantly at full speed, 

 having slipped the dogs. If it is a single deer, they 

 at the time fly the hawks ; but if a herd they wait 

 till the dogs have fixed on to a particular antelope. 

 The hawks skimming along near the ground, soon 

 reach the deer, at whose head they pounce in 

 succession, and sometimes with a violence that 

 knocks it over. At all events, they confuse the 

 animal so much as to stop its speed in such a 

 degree that the dogs can come up ; and in an 

 instant men, horses, dogs and hawks, surround 

 the unfortunate deer, against which their united 

 efforts have been combined. The part of the 

 chase that surprised me most was the extraordinary 

 combination of the hawks and the dogs, which 



