HUNTING THE HARE 



from home. T once recollect a bare being found 

 close to the brook near which hounds were thrown off, 

 as above described, making a point of five miles 

 over the heather, and being eventually killed in the 

 grounds of a well-known public school situated in that 

 district. This is, however, an exceptional occurrence. 



Many and varied are the incidents which occur 

 during the chase of a hare. Often have we been 

 hopelessly at fault on that common, when, to our joy, 

 we have beheld a hat held aloft on some neighbour- 

 ing hill. We know that hat well. It belongs to the 

 most arrant poacher in the neighbourhood ; he is the 

 best hand at seeing a hare sitting in the whole country- 

 side, and he knows a hunted hare when he sees her. 

 We tried at one time to reclaim him by paying him 

 more for every hare he found for us than he could 

 get for one dead in the public-house. No use ! the 

 instinct was far too strong, and only a week or two 

 after the beginning of the compact 'the Long 'un,' as 

 he was called — for he was a tall fellow — was caught 

 setting a snare one Sunday morning. 



When we were drawing for a hare he would walk 

 with his hands behind him, and, turning his head 

 slowly from side to side, would cover all ground within 

 fifty yards as well as any setter. Probably before very 

 long he would suddenly stop, and, indicating a certain 



