112 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



likes to have a memento of a rousing chase. These 

 are, however, more often the incidents of a run with 

 foot-harriers or beagles than of a hunt in which the 

 field is mounted. 



After killing a hare it is desirable, if hunting in 

 enclosed country, to make a move for a fresh hare 

 at some little distance. There are two good reasons 

 for this : one, that there is a better chance of a run 

 in fresh country that has not been much foiled by the 

 hunted hare and her pursuers ; the other reason is 

 that an adjournment to another farm lessens the 

 possibility of riding over the same fences over and 

 over again. Farmers are wonderfully forbearing and 

 wonderfully generous, but it is unfair to subject their 

 fences to the wear and tear of more than one hunt 

 in the day if it can be avoided. These remarks do 

 not, of course, apply with the same force to foot- 

 hunting, in the course of which fences suffer very 

 httle. 



When a hare has been apparently completely lost, 

 and every possible method of picking her up again 

 has been tried, there is always one remaining chance, 

 that she may have slipped back unperceived to the 

 place from which she was first put up. I saw a good 

 instance of this with the Hailsham Harriers on the 

 last day of the season of 1901-2. We had a first- 

 rate marsh run of an hour and a half, going at a great 

 pace. Then scent failed somewhat, and the hare 

 presently slipped us in the middle of the marsh. We 

 tried all ways without success, and ultimately got 

 on a fresh hare. The huntsman had an idea that our 

 hare had made her way back to her old ground, and 

 we presently whipped off. Again, hounds picked up 

 a fresh hare, and so hard did they go that it was im- 

 possible to get them off. We ran over a little eminence 



