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time she hath kindled, she will eat her kindles. 

 And when they be in their love they go together 

 as hounds, save they hold not together as hounds. 

 They kindle often in small bushes or in little 

 hedges, or they hide in heath or in briars or in 

 corn or in vines. If you find a hare which has 

 kindled the same day, and the hounds hunt after 

 her, and if you come thither the next morrow ye 

 shall find how she has removed her kindles, and 

 has borne them elsewhere with her teeth, as a bitch 

 doth her whelps. Men slay hares with grey- 

 hounds, and with running hounds by strength, as 

 in England^ but elsewhere they slay them also with 

 small pockets, and with purse nets, and with small 

 nets, with hare pipes, and with long nets, and with 

 small cords that men cast where they make their 

 breaking of the small twigs when they go to their 

 pastures, as I have before said.^ But, truly, I trow 

 no good hunter would slay them so for any good. 

 When they be in their heat of love and pass any 

 place where conies be, the most part of them will 

 follow after her as the hounds follow after a bitch 



or a brache. 



* See Appendix : Snares. 



