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Chap. XVI. coiiceal themselves, but seem to me to challenge the dogs. 

 When coursed, they do not fly to the woods or groves, how- 

 ever near, for immediate liberation from danger, but stretch 

 away to the open country ; - and during the contest, if they are 

 pursued by slow hounds, they moderate their own speed 

 according as they are pressed ; but if their pursuers are fast, 

 they run with all their might. ^ 



Often when they have turned aside to the champaign 

 country, if they perceive a fleet dog following so close as to 

 overshadow them, they throw him otf by frequent ricks and 

 turns, and again make for the woods, or wherever they know 

 of a place of refuge ; and this should be deemed a proof that 

 the dog has beaten the hare. For coursers, such at least as 

 are true sportsmen, do not take their dogs out for the sake of 

 catching a hare, but for the contest and sport of coursing ; * 



C. F. Paullini 



f^agograpb. 



Curios. S. IV. 



Quadripartit. 

 Botanicum. 



Book of 

 Veiierie p. 248, 



iElian. de 



Natur. Animal 



Jj. XIII. c. 14. 



This superioiily of the upland over the lowland hare continues, according to Paul- 

 lini, after death. The flavour of its flesh on the table is as superior in the former to 

 what it is in the latter, as the prowess of the one during life surpassed that of 

 the other — " Lumbi et clunes, seu coxse," says the credulous epicure of Eisenach, 

 " gratissiraura prajbent alimentum et pulmentum, imprimis niarium, qui femellis in 

 cibatu merito pra;feruntur, pra;sertini si montium fuerint incolse planorumque loco- 

 rum, serpyllo, pulegio, et sircilibus herbis vescentes. Qui enira in palustribus locis 

 degunt, vilioris condilionis sunt carnis et succi di'terioris." The cause of the infe- 

 riority of the latter is furnished by Simon Paulli, " quia illorum intercus et excre- 

 mentitia humiditas, quae carnem reddit manu conturaacem, non atteuuata et consumpta 

 est, uti horum, qui fugati sunt." 



2. Turherville observes a hare will take to the open country, if the horsemen stand 

 on the covert-side, " then peradventure when shee ryseth, shee will take towards the 

 champayne ; " but I have often seen a hare voluntarily start directly away from the 

 covert, witiiout any such obstacle existing to her nearer escape. 



3. Oi) juV avaXiiTKei ttjv eaurov Svpafiiv aTafinvTus, TTjpe? Se rod StwKovTos r^P 

 op/iiiv Kal iav fiiv rj voidris, ov iro.vv avriKe rh kavTov Tctxis" aWa. Kai ti koI avicrret\ev, 

 ws TTOOiKQuv fjikv Tov Kvvhs, OV /x?)i' aTTayopivcTai virh rod avvrSvov rov dp6nov avrSs. 

 Ol5e yap ayalvwy &>p, koI dpa els rh /tir; virepirovuaQai. ol rhv Kaiphv ovtu. 'Eav 8e Kal 

 6 Kvwv ^ &Ki<nos, Tt\viKavTa & \ayi)S (peperai dewv 77 ■koScov eKet, k. t. \. 



4. Oil yap TOJ ewl t&? a.\iava.i rb Bripiov f^dyovffi tocs Kvvas, aWa. es aywua SpSfMOV 

 Ko). a/xiWav k. t. \. With the fine feelings of a genuine courser, the author considers 

 the pleasure of tlie sport as arising solely from the struggle for victory between the 



