68 Seventy Years a Master. 



And so they decided to post a man in a 

 place in the castle where he could command a 

 good view. Each day he waited when the 

 hounds were out, and within a short time they 

 found puss again. The man heard the hounds 

 coming, and then saw this wonderful hare 

 coming straight for the ruins. She was a long 

 way in front of the pack, and when she got to 

 the old walls round the castle she ran her foil 

 two or three times round the walls, and then 

 turned in and jumped on a rock and sprang 

 from one rock to another until she got to an 

 old window, where she lay down in a great 

 bough of ivy on the window-ledge. When the 

 hounds came up the man told the Field what 

 had happened and where she was, so they 

 decided to give her some law, and they sent 

 someone in and whipped her out. Away she 

 went, as fresh as a daisy, and ran back to 

 where they found her, and again she beat 

 them. They found her yet again, but this 

 time she ran them clean out of scent, and that 

 was the last they saw of her. 



On many occasions it has given me pleasure 

 to pay tribute to the real, English sportsman- 



