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WhatfuUiltks are ufed in Hunting a Hart dtforce» 



Let the Huntfman never come nearer the Hound 

 in cry, than fifty or threefcore paces, efpecially at thi 

 lirft uricoupling, or at cafting off their Relays. For i 

 a Hiirt make Doublings, or wheel about, or crofs befor 

 the Hounds, as he feldom doth \ if then you come in toi 

 hadily, you will fpoil the Slot or View i and fo th 

 Hounds, for want of Scent, will be apt tooverftioot tb 

 Chafe : but if after hunting an hour, tne Huntfmar 

 perceive that the Hart makes out end-ways before th' 

 Hounds, and that they follow in full cry, taking it right 

 then he may come in nearer, and blow a Recheat to thi 

 Hounds to encourage them. Hereupon the Hart wil 

 frequently feek other Deer at Layr, and rouze them, or 

 purpofe to make the Hounds hunt change, and will li( 

 down flat in fome of their Layrs upon his Belly,, and ftt 

 let the Hounds over-flioot him : and becaufe they flial 

 neither fcent or vent him, he will gather up all his foui 

 Feet under his Belly, and will blow and breath on rom( 

 molll: place of the ground, in fuchfort, that I have feet 

 the Hounds pafs by fuch a Hart within a yard, and ne 

 ver vent him. 



For which caufe Huntfmen {hould blemi(h at fuel- 

 places they fee the Hart enter into a Thicket, to thi; 

 end, that if the Hounds fhould fall to change, they may 

 return to thofe BlemiQies, and put their Hounds to the 

 right Slot and View, until they have rouzed or found 

 him again. 



The Hart hath another way to bring the Hounds tc 

 change > and that is, when he feeth himfelf clofelj 

 purfued, and that he cannot (hun them, he will break 

 into one Thicket after another to finde Peer, rouzing 

 and herding with them, continuing fo to do fome- 

 times above an hour before he will part from them, or 



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