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stones until absolutely whipped out of their fomis, 

 silence and patience are both required, or you 

 may draw over half-a-dozen in a day, where they are 

 tolerably abundant. Beat thoroughly every nook 

 and corner of one field before entering on fresh 

 ground. Where hares jump up in view, the 

 hounds will be wild enough without increasing 

 their eagerness by screaming. Let them go 

 away as quietly as possible, or they will run 

 over the scent, since hares when first found in 

 enclosed land generally turn short, and hare- 

 hunters never need be in a hurry or flurry on first 

 finding their game, or at any period of the chase. 

 Hares seldom run like foxes, straight away for a 

 given point without loitering, except in the month 

 of March, when jacks sometimes travel considerable 

 distances. Foxes make for earths of drains. Hares, 

 having no such places of refuge, endeavour to 

 escape discovery by hiding in anything that will 

 screen them from view. When not severely 

 pressed, they stop and listen, loiter about, and 

 then throw themselves down anywhere. 



"The scented dew 

 Betrays her early labyrinth, and deep 

 In scattered sullen op'nmgs far behind. 

 With every breeze she hears the coming storm. 

 But nearer and more frequent, as it loads 



