HUNTING HARES. 



Instead of coursing Hares as they do in England and on the 

 Continent, we either take them in snares and traps, or rouse 

 them with a Dog, and shoot them as they make off. They are 

 easily killed, and it will require but a few pellets of Partridge 

 shot to bring a large one to bag. 



They possess a strong scent, and bother the Dogs very much 

 when in pursuit of Partridges ; the best of Dogs can hardly re- 

 frain from running a Hare, after pointing it and seeing it jump 

 up and make off from before his very nose. They lie very 

 close, and it will be necessary oftentimes to kick them up from 

 their form Avhen the Dog points them ; we have done so re- 

 peatedly. This Hare affects marshy thickets, or rather the open 

 fields adjoining these thickets, as they retire to these situations 

 for refuge as soon as roused, and in fact remain there during 

 the greater portion of the day. They bound along with con- 

 siderable speed, and generally in a straight course, but when 

 hard pressed resort to the artifices of doubling, a manoeuvre 

 practised so constantly by the European variety. They will 

 also hide themselves away in the trunk of a holloAV tree, which 

 they ascend by pressing the feet and back against opposite 

 sides of the hollow. 



