316 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
The smaller hare, or rabbit, as it is usually and falsely 
called, at this season lies in the same beats, making his 
form sometimes among the brambles and weeds near the 
side of the boundary stone-wall of some wheat or rye 
stubble, sometimes among the pumpkin leaves and bare 
stalks of a maizefield, oftener among brush-heaps where 
underwood has been trimmed up and piled, constantly in 
dry brushy coppices, and never—where an English sports- 
man would first look for him—among the ridges and fur- 
rows of a fallow field. 
The larger hare, which turns white in winter, is becom- 
ing rare, and is now found in but few localities. In the 
Eastern States, about the Catskill Mountains, and in 
Canada, it is plentiful. It is, however, but little pursued 
or shot by sportsmen, though it would afford excellent 
sport before beagles, and is killed principally for its culi- 
nary value, which is great—whether it be converted into 
soup, or confectioned into ragouts; for roasted, it is dry 
and unsavory, even currant-jelly and herb-stuffing being 
added in the estimate. 
When all these species of game, the latter alone 
excepted, are found together, as is often the case in good 
ground during the autumn, the shooting is the finest that 
can be imagined ; the uncertainty what animal is about to 
show itself before the point, and diversity of practice re- 
quired for stopping whatever it may be in the finest style, 
adding infinite variety and excitement to the sport. 
Of autumn shooting, however, quail may be regarded 
as the most legitimate object, the other varieties coming 
in incidentally, and being killed as they come, the ruffed 
