from Xenophon, 31 



^e tail is inconvenient for running, be^ 

 mg not proper to guide the body on account 

 of its lliortnefs : but flie does that with either 

 of her ears 3 and when fhe is near being taken 

 by the dogs, flie lays down one of her ears 

 and ftretches it out toward the fide in which 

 fhe thinks fhe fliall fuffer hurt, by which 

 means fhe turns inftantly, throwing the dogs 

 that are dafhing at her a great way behind. 



This animal is fo pleafing, that whoever 

 fees it either trailed, or found, or purfued, 

 or taken *, forgets every thing elfe that he 

 is moft attached to. 



In hunting in cultivated places the 

 Sportfman fliould abftain from damaging 

 the fruits of the earth that are in leafon, and 

 fliould kave -f fountains and ftreams unex- 



not much more different from the text, viz. ^rMv ^\ tZto U 

 pjiw, i. e. " this difpofition of the feet is manifeft in the 

 •• fnow." And this, becaufe it is the only mean by which 

 it can be obferved, and becaufe Xenophon muft have been 

 particuhirly attentive to this circumllance, he having an en- 

 tire chapter 6n" Tracing . 



* Where are their forrows, difappbintments, wrongs. 

 Vexations, ficknefj, cares ? AH, all are gone. 

 And with the panting winds lag all behind/ 



Somerville's Chace. 



f ilifppofe as being deemed ficred. 



plored. 



