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brake which the hare had entered, and as she had 

 been on foot three-quarters of an hour, I thought 

 it was about killing time ; so, giving the hounds 

 over to Duran to put in on one side, I went in 

 to stand at the other top corner. In a minute 

 or two I heard hounds running, and, as I had 

 expected, the hare made upwards, and met her 

 fate in the shape of a charge of No. 5. Dinah 

 and Dorothy must have got on to a fresh 

 hare at the bottom, for they were still absent 

 when we adjourned to Fezo's house to eat our 

 lunch. 



It was raining hard when we had finished, so 

 we lit a second pipe till it cleared, when we re- 

 commenced operations above the road, Dinah 

 having just cast up. This enclosure was a long 

 and thick one, and when they found, as they soon 

 did, they went away at the far end, the dach- 

 shunds being left behind. I kept along the rocky 

 hillside, thinking that the hare, which had gone 

 almost down to the river, would turn back to me. 

 Presently a dachshund ran right into a covey of 

 stone-hens, which ran out of shot, and scattered 

 in all directions. One came back, and as I got 

 a little nearer, the dog flushed it again. The 

 first barrel failed to stop it, but at the second it 

 screwed its head back, and I kept my eye on it. 

 When it had gone about a hundred and thirty 

 yards, it collapsed and fell exactly into the path. 



