AUTUMN SHOOTING. 3831 
A sharp whistle, or the simulated bleat of a fawn, will 
cause either the one or the other of these wary animals to 
stop short in full career, within point blank range of the 
gun; and the hare, at such an interruption, will sit up on 
end, with one ear cocked forward and the other backward 
to catch the smallest sound. 
The hare has the power and the habit, it seems, in a 
great degree, of turning its large and prominent eyeballs so 
as to turn its range of vision, when pursued, as it does its 
ears, almost directly backward ; and it must be something 
very abrupt and decided in the way of sound or sight, 
directly in front of it, which shall attract its attention. 
This docs not appear to me to extend to such a length 
in the American as in the European hare; which latter. 
when flying in terror from sounds behind it, as in a 
battue, seems to be wholly blind to every thing in front of 
it, and has been known to run actually into the mouth of a 
dog, and to break its neck by coming into collision with 
one of its fellows flying in similar consternation, along 
some winding woodpath. 
Though it is, however, easy enough to get shots at the 
hare running before hounds in covert, it is by no means so 
easy to shoot him; and many men, who can follow a wild 
duck cutting the air at the rate of ninety miles an hour— 
which, by the way, is his ordinary measured speed—with a 
heavy duck-gun, and bring him down to a certain, will be 
puzzled and foiled completely by a hare dodging in a 
brake, or glancing across a wood road, seen for a second, 
and lost as soon as seen. Here no following is possible, 
and the man who expects to kill his hare by shooting at 
