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particular parts of those fields, that hares arc in- 

 \ariably fountl time after time. 



In addition to this fact there are a few simple rules 

 to remember. In drawing grass land, a field which 

 has had no stock in it for some time is more 

 likely than one which is full of stock, and on 

 arable land the most promising place of all is a 

 fallow which has been ploughed for at least a fort- 

 night. Growing crops, such as wheat or beans, are 

 almost equally worth drawing after they are up and 

 the ground has been undisturbed for a time ; in fact, 

 about the only place on which a hare will not make 

 her form is where the soil has been recently worked 

 and disturbed. Where quiet, undisturbed land, either 

 arable or grass, cannot be found, the hedges must be 

 systematically drawn ; and it is a good plan when 

 expecting to find hares in hedges to keep the pack in 

 the open and get some of the field to beat the 

 hedges, as a hare jumping out of them is very apt to 

 be chopped if the hounds are close to the fence. 



Assuming that we have found our hare, the next 

 thing is to hunt her in the style which is most condu- 

 cive to a good run and a successful finish ; and this is 

 not so easy as it looks. How few really first-class 

 huntsmen we see, either of fox or hare ! A young 

 man w^ho does not know what nerve means, and is 



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