COURSING, ETC. 



being more secure anid less perceivable. To 

 supply the want of a stalking ho.se, which 

 will take up a great deal of tiaje to instruct 

 arid make fit for this exercise, you may make 

 one of any piece of old canvass, and shape it 

 into the form of a horse, with the head 

 bending downwards as if he grazed, and stuff 

 it with any light matters ; but do not forget 

 to paint it the colour of a horse, of which 

 brown is the best ; and let a staff be fixed 

 in the midst, with a sharp iron at the end, 

 to stick into the ground as you may see oc- 

 casion, standing fast till you take your level. 

 It must be made so portable that you may 

 bear it with ease in one hand, moving it so 

 that it may seem to graze as you go. Let 

 the stature of your artificial stalk-horse be 

 neither too low nor too high, for the one will 

 not hide your body, and the other will be apt 

 to frighten the fowls. Instead of this stalk- 

 ing-horse, you may fashion out of canvass 

 painted, an ox or a cow ; and this change is 

 necessary, when you have so beaten the fowl 

 with -your stalking-horse that they begin to 



