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2. For their abodes. — A hart harbours; a buck lodges; 

 a roe beds; a hare seats, oy forms', a rabbit sits, and bur- 

 roius; a fox kennels, and earths; a martin trees; an otter 

 watches; a badger earths; a boar couches. From these the 

 terms unharbour the hart; roi^s^ the buck; start the hare; 

 ^o/^ the rabbit ; unkennel the fox ; untree the martin ; vent 

 the otter; (ii|^ the badger; and rear the boar. 



3. The noise they make in rutting-time. — A hart belleth; 

 a buck groans, or troats; a roe bellows; a hare beats, or 

 ^aps; an otter whines; a boar f reams; a fox barks; sl 

 badger shrieks; a wolf howls. 



4. jFc>r ^A^ footing or treading. — We say the slot of a 

 hart ; the view of bucks, or fallow-deer. Of deer when on 

 the grass, and hardly visible, the foiling. The print of a 

 fox ; the footing of other animals, called vermin ; the track 

 of a boar ; the soreing of a hare, and, when she bounds 

 about, doubling; when her feet are seen on the highway, 

 pranking; and the traces, when her footmarks are in snow. 



5. The tail of a fox is called the brush, or drag; of all 

 the deer tribe, the single; of a boar, the wreath; of a wolf, 

 the stern; of a hare, or rabbit, the scut, 



6. The ordure andfcBces of all kinds of deer, the feiumets, 

 or fetvmishing; of a hare, the crotiles, or crotising; of a 

 boar, lesses; of a fox, the billiting; of an otter, the spraints; 

 of other vermin, the fuants. 



7. ^A^ ai^^V^ or Aoms o/ ^^^r. — A stag has the bur, the 

 pearls, which are little knobs on it ; the beain with the gut- 

 ters, the antler, sur-antler, sur-royal, royal, and the top are 

 the croches. A buck has bur, beam-, brow-antler, black- 

 OMtler, advamen palm, and spellens. If the croaches grow 

 in the form of a hand, it is called a palm-head. 



8. We say a Utter of cubs ; a nest of rabbits ; the drag 

 of a squirrel. 



