74 THE MASTER OF GAME 



intending to hunt for them, nor for the wild cat 

 either. Nevertheless when men seek in covert for 

 the fox and can find none, and the hounds hap fen 

 to find them and then the hunter rejoiceth his 

 hounds for the ex f hit of his hounds, and also because 

 it is vermin that they run to. Of conies I do not 

 speak, for no man hunteth them unless it be bish- 

 hunters (fur hunters), and they hunt them with 

 ferrets and with long small h ay es. Those r aches 

 that run to a coney at any time ought to be rated 

 saying to them loud, "Ware riot, ware," for no 

 other wild beast in England is called riot save the 

 coney only. 



