CHAPTER X. 



HARE SHOOTING. 



We trust it is as unnecessary to tell the courteous 

 reader, that, in walking through an aviaiy, he is not 

 to knock the gold and silver pheasants on the head 

 with his cane, as that it is unla^vful for him to shoot 

 a hare, in a country where harriers are kept, or a dis- 

 trict favourable for coursing. Still there is ample 

 space and room enough for this sport ; which, in 

 some places, absolutely becomes an operation not to 

 be dispensed with in the morality of sporting, so to 

 speak. Without going into the question of the con- 



