74 The Hunting Field With Horse and Hound 



beaten many dogs, yet, being started from her form, she 

 cannot but be fluttered at heart and terrified at the hallooing 

 and the hounds pressing close upon her; and in this way 

 many a noble hare has often ignobly perished without an 

 effort, showing no diversion worth mentioning." This is quite 

 true of rabbits and hares in general, but a Jack rabbit on the 

 plains of Colorado needs no such law or start before hounds 

 to give sportsmanlike sport. 



Goldin's translation of Ovid gives the following vivid de- 

 scription of a chase. 



"1 gat me to the knap 

 Of this same hill, and there hehelde of this strange course the 



hap. 

 In which, the beste seems one while caught, and ere a man 



would thinke 

 Doth quickly gin the grewnd the slip, and from his biting 



shrinke; 

 And, like a wily fox, he runs not directly out. 

 Nor makes a winlas over all the champion fields about. 

 But, doubling and indenting, still avoids his enemies' lips. 

 And turning short, as swift about as s pinning -wheele, he wips 

 To disappoint the snatch. The grewnd pursuing at an inch. 

 Both cote him, never losing. Continually he snatches 

 In vaine, but nothing in his mouth save only hair he catches." 



This only goes to show it is the same good old game and 

 is played to-day in the same good old way. 



There are within four or five miles of Denver in any di- 

 rection plenty of Jack rabbits, and the Bartel Brothers 

 brought out their best hounds to show us how the sport is 

 managed. 



From the kennels, the most rehable hounds go in couples; 

 the younger element in shps led by boys, either on horse- 



