CHAPTER XXIV 



HOW A MAN SHOULD KNOW A GREAT HART 

 BY THE FUMES 1 



After I shall teach you to know a great hart 

 by the fumes of the hart, for sometimes they 

 crotey in wreaths, and sometimes flat and some- 

 times formed, and sometimes sharp at both ends, 

 and sometimes pressed together, and sometime in 

 many other manners as I have said before. When 

 they crotey flat and it be in April or in May or in 

 June if the croteyes be great and thick it is a 

 token that it is a hart chaceable, and if he find 

 the fumes wreathed, and it be from the middle of 

 June to the middle of August in great forms and 

 in great wreaths and well soft, it is a token that 

 it is a hart chaceable, and if he find the fumes 

 that are formed and not holding together as it 

 is from the beginning of July into the end of 

 August, if they are great and black and long and 

 are not sharp at the ends, and are heavy and dry 

 without slime, it is a token that it is a hart chace- 

 able. And if the fumes are faint and light and 



1 See Appendix : Excrements. 



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