CONCERNING GAME AND THINGS. I97 



rounding country as to whether the dog shall 

 be broken for far or near quartering. 



In Wales, Scotland, and the North of Eng- 

 land, men may say that the rules I have laid 

 down cannot be applied, as they would make 

 the dog a "close" hunter, where you require a 

 a " wide " one. I say, then, that the dog has 

 to learn his A. B.C. before he can do anything 

 in the way of hunting properly, and the keeper 

 must therefore be guided according to the 

 exigencies of the case, as* to how far, and who 

 strictly, he should adhere to my rules. 



I am now going to write a little about ground 

 game, and will commence with the keeper's 

 dodges for hares. I do not wish to be thought 

 conceited, but I am only stating the plain 

 truth when I say, that, about these parts I 

 used to be considered a noted man for hares by 

 all who knew me. Mr. Alfred Hicks, one of 

 the tenant farmers, once asked me how it was 

 that sixty hares were all feeding at once in 

 a crab-tree field of nine or ten acres of 

 grass, at half-past three in the afternoon, 

 in the month of November. I never told 



