Client : Unto thefe you may alfo adde thofe which can- 

 not difccrn the Footing or Pricking of a H^re, yet will 

 they run fpecdy when they fee her, purfuing her hot- 

 ly in the beginning, and afterwards tire, or hunt lazi- 

 ly. All thefe are not (o be admitted into a Kennel of 

 good Hounds. 



On the contrary, thofe Hounds which are good 

 when they have found the Hare^ make (hew thereof to 

 the Huntfman, by running more fpeedily, and with 

 gefture of Head, Eyes, Ears, and Tail, winding to the 

 Fourm or Hares Mufc, never give over profecution with 

 a gallant noife : they have good and hard Feet- and 

 fiately Stomack?. 



Now whereas the nature of the Hare is fometimes 

 to leap and make headings, fometimes to tread foftly 

 with but a very fmall impreilion in the Earth , or 

 fometimes to lie down, and ever to leap or jump out 

 and into her own Form, the poor Hound is fo 

 much the more bufied and troubled to retain the fmall 

 fcent of her pricking which Che leaveth behinde her i 

 for this caufe it is requifite that you help the Hound, 

 not onely with Voice, Eye, and Hand, but with a 

 feafonable Time alfo: for in frofty weather the fcenc 

 freezeth with the Earth, fo that there is no certainty of 

 hunting till it thaw, or that the Sun arife. Likewifc 

 if very much Rain fall between the ftarting oi the Hare 

 and time of hunting , it is not convenient to hunt 

 till the Water be dried upi for the drops difperfc the 

 fcent of the Harci and dry weather coUedeth it again. 

 The Summer-time alfo is not for hunting, becaufe the 

 heat ot the weather confurneth the fcent •, and the nighc 

 being then but (hort, the Hare travelleth not far, feeding 

 onely in the morning and evening : befidcs, the fragran- 

 cyof Flowers and Herbs then growing, obliterates tlie 

 fcent the Hounds are guided by. 



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