308 OF DEEH. 



sides they are very sensible they cannot stand 



long before the hounds. 



The fallow harts bear their heads high, 

 and a whitish colour, their beams small, their 

 antlers long, slender, and ill grown ; having 

 neither heart, courage, nor force : but those 

 of a lively red fallow, having a black or 

 brown list down the ridge of the back, are 

 strong, bearing fair and high heads well fur- 

 nished and beamed. 



How to know an old hart by the slot, entries^ 



abatures andjoils, fewmets, gait, 



walks, and fraying-stocks. 



I shall proceed in order, and first of the 

 slot. You must carefully look on the tread- 

 ings of the hart's foot ; if you find the tread- 

 ings of two, the one long and the other round, 

 and both of one bigness, yet shall the long 

 slot declare the hart to be much larger than 

 the round ; moreover the old hart's hind foot 

 doth never over-reach the fore foot, the 



