66 Seventy Years a Master. 



The hare is in some cases a very difficult 

 animal to hunt. If you are not pretty close 

 to her she will sometimes run a furrow the 

 whole length of a field, turn short round, and 

 then come back on her own foil and go out of 

 that field the same end she went in. But I 

 always say, and always did, " cast for a run." 

 If they had been running smartish for a while 

 and threw up, I took hold of them and cast 

 'em forrard. '' Hold them on." If the quarry 

 is on, you lose no time, and if it is back behind 

 you, well, then you have the satisfaction of 

 knowing that you have lost nothing by swing- 

 ing them forward, and you can console 

 yourself with the reflection that the animal 

 you are hunting is a ringing brute. 



I believe scent depends a lot on the animal 

 you find. How often you hear people say, 

 *' Why, they could run this morning, but they 

 can't run a bit this afternoon " ; or, '' They 

 could not run this morning." Find in the 

 afternoon, and they run like blazes. 



I will give you one instance that I recollect 

 very well. We met at Morden, and it blew as 



