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 interestinof. 



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 



