38 Hare Huntlngy 



happens to come near, and enquire if they 

 have feen the dogs. 



And, when he finds where they are, if 

 they are fliill on the fcent, he fhould come 

 up to them and encourage them, calUng 

 each dog by his name as often as poflible, 

 and changing the tone of his voice to harfh, 

 or foft, loud, or low, according to the cir- 

 cumflance. And, if the Hare has made her 

 courfe among the mountains, he fhould 

 alfo encourage them by faying, * That'§ 

 good. Dogs ! That's good. Dogs ! but, if 

 they have loft their fcent, he fhould call 

 them back, crying, ^ Halloo back, Dogs ! 



When they are brought back to the fcent, 

 he fliould draw them round, m.aking many 

 rings. But, if the fcent is quite lofh, he 

 j(hould draw the dogs along by % the nets, 



and 



* Es xv^K) E» vKuHi;. Juft as we do when a dog hits the 

 Hare over a .hard highway, or any other place, unfit to re- 

 tain the fcent, as was mod probably the cafe with the rocky 

 pnountains of Attica. Mr. Beckford juflly obferves, it is 

 as difficult to pen a hollow as a whifper. 



f Ov Tra'xiv « Tra'Xiv u xiIve-, or, as Leunclave reads, 

 •r «f(.7r«Aii'. 



X J/if/.eioi' 6sVSai rpip^o" iccvru' STor;vot;, in the hunting 

 language of Greece, Signified a rarge of nets by which the 



woods 



