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Chap. XX. accompanies them on horseback, it is his duty to keep up with 

 the dogs. 



Beating the They beat the ground in regular array, with an extended 

 front, proceeding in a straight line to the completion of a 

 certain extent of country ; and then, wheeUng about in a body, 

 return in the same way by the side of their former track, 

 omitting as far as possible none of the likely lying. " 



But it is necessary, if many dogs are taken into the field, 

 that they should not be left at random, and without arrange- 

 ment. For when the hare is started from her form, not a man 

 would refrain from slipping his hound after her : one from 

 eagerness to see his own dog run, and another from being 

 startled and beside himself at the hallooing ; and the hare 

 would be caught, in consequence of the crowd and confusion 

 of the dogs, without a struggle, and the whole value of the 



ScheHiasm. " (juod loquendi genus observatione dignum est," — offering no explanation: Zeune 



hm V. c. XVI. interprets " qui pedites venantur, studio rei capti :" Holsten, " qui ipsi per se vena- 



tionis studio incumbunt :" — those who have to do with the practical part of the 



sport, as the slippers, leaders of tlie hounds, &c. the actual workmen. Such were 



Cyneg. i. the ipyoirSvoi Kparepol of Oppian, the bearers of the hunting gear to the covert, &c. 



V. l4o. 2. 'EKTTfpuaai. 5e eV} yueTOTroy raxdevres. We here see the military tactician : after 



the lapse of nearly seventeen centuries, no improvement has taken place in the mode 



of beating for a hare. One of our best English manuals of coursing, whose author 



was probably as expert in the field as his predecessor of Bithynia, thus describes the 



Turberville's plan adopted in the days of good Queen Bess : "To course y''. hare you must send 



Ti „ either hare-finders before vou to find some hare sitting, or els yourself w'h. vour cora- 



Hunting, &c. •' . . 



pany may range and beat over the fields until you either find a hare sitting, or start 



her. 1 have marked y^. hare-finders in their seeking of a hare in Norlhamptonshyre, 

 and they will never beat but one end of a furlong : and that shall be the end which is 

 downe the wind or from the wind ; for they hold opinion that a hare will not (by 

 her wil) sit with her head into the wind. He that will seeke a hare must go over- 

 thwart the lands ; and every land that he passeth over, let him beginne with his eye 

 at his foot, and so looke downe the land to the furlong's end, first on the one side 

 and then on the other ; and so shall he find y<^. hare sitting in her forme : assoone as 

 heespyeth her he must cry Sa how. Then they which lead the greyhounds may come 

 neare : and you may appoynt which greyhounds shall course. Then let him which 

 found the hare, go towards her and say. Up, pusse, up ! untill she rise out of her 

 forme." 



