CHAPTER YIII. 



THE CHASE OF A HIND. 



All along the plain, 



To the low fountains, 

 Up and down again 



From the high mountains ; 

 Echo then shall again 



Tell her I follow, 

 And the floods to the woods, 



Carry my holla, holla ! 

 Ce! la! ho! ho! hu ! 



John Webster and William Rowley. 



The chase of a hind differs from that of a stag in a 

 good many important particulars, but requires an 

 equally high knowledge of woodcraft on the part 

 not only of the huntsman but of all his assistants. 

 Although many of the best runs in a season take 

 place after hinds, hind hunting has never attained 

 such popularity as stag-hunting, even among the 

 regular followers of the sport — a fact which may 

 probably be mainly accounted for because there is 

 lacking that element of fighting which so often 

 marks the end of a stag-hunt. A stag at bay and 

 gallantly facing his foes has always powerfully stirred 

 the sympathy and imagination of Englishmen. It 

 was an appeal to this sentiment which Shakespeare 



