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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



CHAPTER IV. 



TERMS USED IN HUNTING. 



HE gentlemen of the sport 

 have invented a set of 

 term?, which may be called 

 the hunting language. The princi- 

 pal are these : 



1. For beasts, as they are in com- 

 pany : They say, a herd of harts, 

 and all manner of deer ; a hey of roes ; a 

 sounder of swine ; a rout of wolves ; a 

 rich ess of martens : a brace or leash of 

 JIM ks, foxes, or hares ; a couple of rabbits or coneys. 



2. For their lodging : A hart is said to harbor ; a buck 

 lodges ; a roe beds ; a hare seats or forms ; a coney sits ; a fox 

 kennels ; a marten trees ; an otter watches ; a badger earths ' a 

 boar couches. Hence, to express their dislodging, they say, un- 

 harbor the hart ; rouse the buck ; start the hare ; bolt the coney ; 

 unkennel the fox; untree the v.iarten; vent the otter; dig the 

 badger ; rear the boar. 



