i6 THE MASTER OF GAME 



seat, she commonly goes by one way, and as she 

 goes she will not suffer any twig or grass to touch 

 her, for she will sooner break it with her teeth 

 and make her way. Sometime she sitteth a mile 

 or more from her pasturing, and sometimes near 

 her pasture. But when she sitteth near it, yet 

 she may have been the amount of half a mile 

 or more from there where she hath pastured, and 

 then she ruseth again from her pasture. And 

 whether she go to sit near or far from her pas- 

 ture she goes so gynnously (cunningly) and wilily 

 that there is no man in this world that would 

 say that any hound could unravel that which she 

 has done, or that could find her. For she will 

 go a bow shot or more by one way, and ruse 

 again by another, and then she shall take her way 

 by another side, and the same she shall do ten, 

 twelve, or twenty times, from thence she will 

 come into some hedge or strength (thicket), and 

 shall make semblance to abide there, and then 

 will make cross roads ten or twelve times, and 

 will make her ruses, and thence she will take 

 some false path, and shall go thence a great way, 

 and such semblance she will make many times 

 before she goeth to her seat. 



The hare cannot be judged, either by the foot 

 or by her fumes (excrements), for she always 

 crotieth ^ in one manner, except when she goeth 



' Casting her excrements. 



