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Method of dejlroying Hares by the 

 Hare-Pipe. 



THE following extradt from Mr. Chand- 

 ler's Travels in Greece, at the fame time 

 that it ihews that the country of Xenophon is 

 ilill famous for Hare-hunting, and that the 

 modern Athenians have not degenerated from 

 their illuftrious anceftors, at leafl; in their love 

 for that diveriion, defcribes a mode of killing 

 hares formerly pra(ftifed by poachers in this 

 kingdom, vi^hich w^ill explain the meaning of 

 hare-pipes 3 a device mentioned in old law 

 books and deputations to game - keepers. 

 Though Chandler doth not explain it to be an 

 imitation of the call between male and female 

 in breeding feafon, yet his narrative clearly af- 

 certains it, by dating the particular month in 

 which it is pradiifed, and that one killed by 

 })is company was big with young. 



" Hares are exceedingly numerous. Call- 

 ing is pradtifed, in ilill weather, from the lat- 

 ter end of May to about the middle of Auguft. 



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