30 HUNTING ADVENTURES, 



privilege of recurring to certain branches of the subject hereafter. 

 Our authority says : 



Hunting, as practised in England and Scotland, is chiefly 

 performed with dogs ; of which we have various species, ac- 

 commodated to the different kinds of game, as greyhounds, 

 jloodhounds, terriers, &c. In the kennels or packs, they gene- 

 rally rank them under the heads of enterers, drivers, flyers, tyers, 

 &c. On some occasions, nets, spears and instruments for digging 

 the ground, are also required ; nor is the hunting horn to be omitted. 

 The usual chases are, the hart, buck, roe, hare, fox, badger, and 

 otter. 



Hunting is practised in different seasons and manners, and 

 with different apparatus, according to the nature of the beasts 

 *"hich are hunted. With regard to the seasons, that for hart 

 and buck hunting, begins a fortnight after midsummer, and lasts 

 till Holy- rood day ; that for the hind and doe, begins on Holy- 

 rood day, and lasts till Candlemas ; that for fox hunting, begins at 

 Christmas, and holds till Lady-day ; that for roe hunting, begins 

 at Michaelmas, and ends at Christmas ; hare hunting commences 

 at Michaelmas, and lasts till the end of February ; and where the 

 wolf and boar are hunted, the season for each begins at Christ- 

 mas, the first ending at Lady-day, and the latter at the Purification. 

 When the sportsmen have provided themselves with nets, spears, 

 and a hunting horn to call the dogs together, and likewise with 

 instruments for digging the ground, the following directions will 

 be of use to them, in the pursuit of various sorts of game. 



