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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



CHAPTER XL 



HUNTING THE HARE. 



S of al) chases, the .aare makes the 

 greatest pastime, so it gives no little 

 pleasure- to see the craft of this small 

 animal for her self-preservation. If it 

 be rainy, the hare usually takes to the 

 high- ways ; and if she comes to the side 

 of a young grove, or spring, she seldom 

 enters, but squats down till the hounds 

 have overshot her; and then she will 

 return the way she came, for fear of the wet and dew that hangs 

 on the boughs. In this case, the huntsman ought to stay one hun- 

 dred paces before he comes to the wood-side, by which means he 

 will perceive whether she 'return as aforesaid; which if she do, 

 he must haloo in his hounds; :md call them back; and that 

 presently, that the hounds may nut think it the counter she came 

 first 



