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3 For cheir noise at rutting time : A hart belleth ; a buck 

 growns, or treats ; a roe bellows ; a hare beats or taps ; an jotter 

 whines ; a boar freams ; a fox barks ; a badger shrieks ; a wolf 

 howls ; a goat rattles. 



4. For their copulation : A hart or buck goes to rut ; a roe to 

 tourn ; a boar to brim ; a hare or coney to buck ; a fox to clickit- 

 ting ; a wolf to match or make ; an otter hunts for his kind. 



5. For the footing and treading : Of a hart, they say, the slot ; 

 of a buck, and all fallow-deer, the view ; of all deer, if on the 

 grass, and scarce visible, the foiling ; of a fox, the print ; and of 

 other vermin, the footing ; of an otter, the marks ; of a boar, the 

 track; the hare when in open field, is said to sore; when she 

 winds about to deceive the hounds, she doubles ; when she beats 

 on the hard highway, and her footing comes to be perceived, she 

 pricketh : in snow, it is called the trace of the hare. 



6. The tail of a hart, buck, or other deer, it is called the single ; 

 that of a boar, the wreath ; of a fox, the br"h or drag ; and the 

 tip at the end, the chape ; of a wolf the stern ; of a hare and 

 coney, the scut. 



7. The ordure of a hart, ami all deer, is called fewmets or few- 

 mishing ; of a hare, crotiles or crotising ; of a boar, lesses ; of a 

 fox, the billetting ; and of other vermin, the fuants ; of an otter, 

 the spraints. 



8. As the attire or parts of deer, those of a stag, if perfect, are 

 the bur, the pearls, the little knobs on it, the beam, the gutters, 

 the antler, the fur antler, royal, fur royal, and all at top the 

 troches ; of the buck the bur, beam, brow antler, black antler 

 advancer, palm, and spellers. If the croches grow in the form ol 

 a man's hand, it is called a palmed head. Heads bearing not 

 above three or four, and the croches placed aloft, all of one height, 

 are called crowned heads ; heads having double croches, are 

 called forked heads, because the croches are planted on the top ol 

 the beams like forks. 



9. Of the young, they^say, a litter of cubs, a nest of rabbits, 

 a squirrel's dray. 



10. The terms used in respect of the dogs, &c., are as follows 



