84 SPORTS AND ANECDOTES. 



Sometimes he makes the best of his way across the 

 country ; sometimes he hangs about a good deal, and 

 does not seem inclined to leave the said prison van. 

 Persuasive measures are, however, soon taken to cause 

 him to make a move of some kind, and thus a start is 

 made. 



I do not imagine that the poor fellow goes con 

 amore ; he don't seem quite to like it, but as he is off, 

 and as the hounds are after him, like a suspicious 

 scamp in the streets he has got the hint to move on, 

 and move on he must somewhere. 



Being a stranger to the country, and being, like 

 many others, left alone in the world, it does not signify 

 to him much where he goes, so he goes straight for- 

 ward, and knowing that he is pursued by the hounds, 

 he makes the best of his way, and the more he gets 

 alarmed the more he mends his pace. 



With distance and pace, however, a stag even will 

 tire, and as his pursuers are gradually drawing nearer, 

 he is beginning to be in a bigger funk than he was at 

 starting, and is on the look-out for any place to take 

 refuge in. Sometimes he will try to get into some 

 hovel or barn. If he gets to a village, he will try to 

 get into any door that is open, and not unfrequently 

 succeeds in finding the desired shelter in a blacksmith's 



