222 HUNTING DIRECTORY. 



Of Running the Foil and the Doubles of the Hare. 



•' Huntsman ! her gait observe : if in wide rings 

 She wheel her raazy way, in the same round 

 Persisting still, she'll foil the beaten track. 

 But if she fly, and, with the fav'ring wind, 

 Urge her bold course, less intricate tliy task ; 

 Push on thy pack." — Somervile. 



"Besides running the foil, they frequently make 

 doubles, which is going forward to tread the same steps 

 back again, on purpose to confuse their pursuers; and 

 in the same manner in which they make the first double 

 they generally continue, whether long or short. This 

 information, therefore, 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 wojiderful ! 



" ■ let cavillers deny 



That brutes have reason ; sure 'lis something more : 



'Tis Heav'n directs, and stratagems inspire, 



Beyond the short extent of human thought." — Somervilk. 



She frequently, after running a path a considerable way, 

 will make a double, and then 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 proba- 



