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Steps back again, on purpose to confuse their 

 pursuers ; and the same manner in which they 

 make the first double they generally continue, 

 whether long or short. This information, there- 

 fore, if properly attended to by the huntsman, 

 may also be of use to him in his casts. 



When they make their double on a high road, 

 or dry path, and then leave it with a spring, it 

 is often the occasion of a long fault : the spring 

 which a hare makes on these occasions is hardly 

 to be credited, any more than is her ingenuity 

 in making it ; both are wonderful ! 



" Let cavillers deny 

 That brutes have reason ; sure 'tis something more : 

 'Tis Heav'n directs, and stratagems inspires 

 Beyond the short extent of human thought." 



SOJIERVILE. 



She frequently, after running a path a consider- 

 able way, will make a double, and tiien stop till 

 the hounds have past her ; she will then steal 

 away as secretly as she can, and return the 

 same way she came. This is the greatest of all 

 trials for hounds. It is so hot a foil, that in the 

 best packs there are not many hounds that can 

 hunt it; you must follow those hounds that can, 

 and try to hit her off where she breaks her foil, 

 which in all probability she will soon do, as she 

 now flatters herself she is secure. When the 



