1 62 THE MASTER OF GAME 



be in a country where they have not heard the 

 hounds, or where they have heard them. Some 

 of them bellow with a full open mouth and often 

 cast up their heads. And these be those that have 

 heard the hounds only a little in the season, and 

 that are well heated and swelled. And sometimes 

 about high noon they bellow as before is said. 

 The others bellow low and great and stooping with 

 the head, and the muzzle towards the earth, and 

 that is a token of a great hart, and an old and a 

 malicious, or that he hath heard the hounds, and 

 therefore dare not bellow or only a few times in 

 the day, unless if it be in the dawning. And the 

 other belloweth with his muzzle straight out before 

 him, bolking and rattling in the throat, and also 

 that is a token of a great and old hart that is assured 

 and firm in his rut. In short all the harts that 

 bellow greatest and mightiest by reason should be 

 greatest and oldest. 



