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ing, you will not give it up at the first difficulty 

 that presents itself and draw again. With big 

 hounds and a country plentifully stocked with 

 hares, you need never trouble yourself whether it 

 is a fresh hare or the run one you are pursuing, 

 as you know your pack can always beat her 

 unless she cheats them with some cunning double. 

 You ought, however, never to give up your run 

 hare, and the more difficult the problem she sets 

 you the more anxious you should be to solve it. 

 This, to my mind, is the chief pleasure in the 

 sport, or otherwise you might get a brace of 

 greyhounds to run for you. 



One of the favourite dodges a hare has of 

 throwing her pursuers off the track is to run a 

 road, and I have known them to do this for two 

 miles without once leaving the dusty surface. If 

 you are not fortunate enough to have a good 

 road-hound, your only plan is to keep holding 

 the pack forward, first on one side and then on 

 the other, but a still better way is to get some 

 hounds on each side of the road. A hare that 

 has been bustled and is getting wide of the 

 smeuses she knows may do anything, and it is 

 never safe to predict what she will do next. 



