I In this cafe, let the Huntfman flay a hundred paces 

 before he corpes to the Wood- fide, by which means he 

 fhali perceive whether ihz return as aforefaid i vrhich 

 if (he do, let him hallow in his Hounds, and call them 

 back, and that prefently, that the Hounds may not 

 think it the Counter (became firft. 



The next thing to be obferved, is the place where 

 :he Hare fitteth, and upon what wind (he makes her 

 Form : for it" (he form either upon the North or South- 

 wind, (he will not willingly run into the Wind, but 

 run upon a fide or down the Wind. But if die form 

 in the Water, it is a fign (he is foul and meafled. If 

 ^ou hunt fuch a one, have a fpecial regard all the day 

 to the Brook-fides, for there and near Pla(hes Ihe will 

 Tiake all her croilings, doublings, &c, 



I have feen a Hare fo crafty, that as foon as (he heard 

 :he found of a Horn , (he would intiantly ftart out of 

 ler Form, though it was a quarter of a mile diftant, 

 ind go fwim in iome Pool, and there rell her fdf upon 

 bme Ru(h-bed in the midft thereof, from whence (he 

 vould not ftir till (he heareth the Horn again •, and then 

 f have feen her ftart out again fwimming to Land, and 

 he hath (toad up before the Hounds four hours before 

 ve could kill her, fwimming, and ufing all her Subtle- 

 ies and erodings in the Water. 



Such is the Natural cratt and fubtlety of a H:ire , 

 hat fometimes , after (he hath been hunted three 

 lOurs, (he will ftart a freCh Hare, and fquat in the fame 

 orm. Others., having been hunted a coniiderable 

 ime, will creep under the Door oi a Sheep-coat, and 

 here hide themfelvcs among the Sheep-, or when they 

 re hard hunted, will run in among a flock of flieep, and 

 annot be gotten out from among them by any means, 



II the Hounds are coupled up, and the Sheep driven 

 ito their Pens. Some Cand that is fomething ftrange) 

 ^ill take the ground like a Comy^ and that is called 



