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they stand apart with the greyhouuds, leading them in their CtiAP. XXI. 

 hands where it is most probable the hare will direct her 

 course, that they may slip them at her when she breaks cover. - 

 And here the greyhounds answer the same purpose its Xeno- 

 phon's nets. ^ But the courses in this way are irregular and 

 confused, and the hare, however good, is generally so terrified 

 at the barking of the finders, that, unless she get far enough 

 a-head to be able to recover herself, she is easily caught, being 

 frightened out of her wits. * 



and this is again followed by other chases, wherein the wolf and stag are the grey- 

 hound's quarry. 



See also L'EcoIe de la Chasse, (Rouen, 1788,) " Maniere de prendre les loups 

 avec les levriers." 



2. "Otto^s &v Toi irpoxoipfi- " Quacunque ratione fieri potest," Ind. Grsec. Z. 

 " When she is going off," Blane. 



3. Kai elcrlv at Kivss oStoi, 8 ri irep ai &pKvs s,eyo<ptaVTi 4Keiv(f. From some curious 

 Dialogues composed by Elfric, Duke of Mercia, in Latin, Mr. Turner has shown that 

 our ancestors resembled their continental neighbours in these field sports. 



" I am a hunter to one of the kings. — How do you exercise your art ? I spread 

 my nets, and set them in a fit place, and instruct my hounds to pursue the wild deer 

 till they come to the nets unexpectedly, and so are entangled, and I slay them in the 

 nets. — Cannot you hunt without nets ? Yes, with swift hounds I follow the wild 

 deer. — What wild deer do you chiefly take 1 Harts, boars, and rein-deer, and goats, 

 and sometimes hares,'' &c. 



4. 'Yfrh T7)s KAayyrjs twv kvvZv, &e. Kvvuv e<p6l3riaev ofioKKT] : for a practical 

 exemplification of a course conducted upon the principle of uniting speed and saga- 

 city in the same pack, see Mr. Hobhouse's description of his sport with his host at 

 Votizza. To "four wire-haired Lacouni" were added "three mongrel pointers, 

 and several curs . . . with a large party of men on foot and horseback, making as 

 much noise as possible." It is scarce necessary to state the poor hare was killed 

 " after a short run." 



This method of coursing (if it deserve the name) was much in use in France two 

 centuries or more ago. " They use their greyhounds," says Turberville, " only to 

 set backsets, or receytes for deare, wolfe, fox, or such-like. Whereas we here in 

 England do make great account of such pastime as is to be seen in coursing with 

 greyhounds at deare, hare, foxe, or such-like, even of themselves, when there are 

 neyther hounds hunting, nor other meaue to help them." 



Edmund De Langley, in his jiHagStCT Of ffiatHf, condemns the union of sagacious 

 and fleet hounds, " spaynels and greihoundes," in the same field ; for " the spaynel 



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Venerie 

 Norraande. 



C. VII. 



Hist, of the 

 Anglo-Saxons. 



Apollon. 



Rhod. 

 L. III. 13. 



Journey thro' 

 Albania, &c. 

 Letter xvii. 



Book of 



Hunting. 



p. 240. 



c. XVII. fol. GO. 



