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thereof, they will evermore be noisy and wild, 

 and namely when they seek their chase, for when 

 the chase is found, the hounds cannot questey too 

 much so that they be in the fues/ And to rente 

 and make hounds there are many remedies. There 

 be also' many kinds of running hounds^ some small 

 and some big, and the small be called kenets, and 

 these hounds run well to all m.anner of game, and 

 they {that) serve for all game men call them harriers? 

 And every hound that hath that courage will come to 

 be a harrier by nature with little m.aking. But they 

 need great nature and making in youth, and great 

 labour to make a hound run boldly to a chase where 

 there is great change, or other chases. Hounds 

 which are not perfectly wise take the change 

 commonly from May until St. John's tide (June 

 24th), for then they find the change of hinds. 

 The hinds will not fly far before the hounds, but 

 they turn about and the hound sees them very 

 often, and therefore they run to them with a 

 better will, because they keep near their calves the 

 which cannot fly, therefore they hunt them gladly ; 

 and commonly when the harts go to rut, hounds 

 hunt the change, for the harts and the hinds be 

 commonly standing in herds together, and so they 



^ "The hounds cannot challenge too loudly when they are 

 on the line." G. de F. : " Chien ne peut trop crier," p. 112. 



2 From Mid. Eng. harien^ harren^ to harry or worry game. 

 See Appendix : Harrier. 



