no HARE-HUNTING 



is yours. You may ornament your smoking- 

 room with your hares' heads, but you alone 

 will feel that they are appropriate mural 

 decorations ; for your friends a few lop-eared 

 rabbits would be more interesting. 



I notice that all authorities on this subject 

 dwell on the fact that hare-hunting is an 

 ancient sport ; that old writers describe with 

 great ingenuity and veracity all the qualities 

 and ways of this clever little beast. Some 

 of these descriptions are most quaint, for 

 example, the following : " There are four 

 kind of Hares : some live in the Mountains, 

 some in the Fields, some in the Marshes; 

 some everywhere, without any place of 

 abode. They of the Mountains are most 

 swift, they of the Fields less nimble, they of 

 the Marshes most slow, and the wandering 



