i So RED DEER. 



has a net about twelve feet long, similar 

 in shape, and takes with him a lurcher. He 

 has previously found where hares feed at 

 night by their tracks to and fro and the 

 marks of their pads on the wet ground, as 

 the sand in gateways. Hares usually go 

 through gateways, so that lie knows which 

 way they will come. He sets the net across 

 the gateway inside the field, stands aside and 

 sends the clog to drive the hare into it. The 

 dog is a cross between a sheep-dog and a 

 collie, very last, and runs mute ; he does 

 not give tongue on finding the scent ; if he 

 did the poacher would strangle him as use- 

 less, since barking would announce too 

 plainly what was going forward. 



The lurcher is very intelligent, and quite 

 understands what he is wanted to do. On 

 finding the hare he gives chase ; often the hare 

 goes straight for the net, but may of course 

 follow another direction, when it is the 

 lurcher's work to turn her, and not let her 

 leave the field except by that one exit. To 



