THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
the doe hare at a distance of 300 or 400 yards. He remarked that she runs 
the scent of her young just like a dog and utters this curious cry as she 
goes along, and that she also uses it to call them to her. 
Poaching . — Poachers were long ago acquainted with the fact that hares 
call to each other in the breeding time, and could be attracted by an imi- 
tation of their cry. This is attested by some of the old writers on sport, 
who give figures of the pipe used for the purpose, and one such figure I 
have reproduced in “ The Field ” of March 25, 1905, from a plate by 
Gaston Legrand in “La Chasse Moderne.’’ French poachers at the present 
day call the buck hares in the month of March by imitating with an ivy 
leaf the cry of the doe. 
The following extracts from Dr Chandler’s “ Travels in Asia Minor and 
Greece’’ (1817), a highly interesting work by a classical antiquary and 
traveller, not only shows that at the time it was written the country 
of Xenophon was still famous for hare -hunting, but describes a mode 
of killing hares formerly practised by poachers in England, which will 
explain the meaning of the hare -pipe: “ Hares are exceedingly numerous. 
Calling is practised in still weather from the latter end of May to 
about the middle of August. Three or four men in a company stand silent 
and concealed in a thicket, with guns pointed in different directions. When 
all are ready, the caller applies two of his fingers to his lips, and sucking 
them at first slowly and then faster, produces a squeaking sound, when 
the hares within hearing come to the spot. In this manner many are slaugh- 
tered in a day. One of my companions, with Lombardi, a Turk and Greek 
or two, who were adepts, killed eleven.’’ 
Another form of hare-pipe would be more correctly described as a snare. 
It is formed of a hollow piece of wood about six inches long, through 
which a cord passes, ending in a noose, the other end of the cord being 
firmly pegged down, and the noose end of the pipe being sharply pointed, 
penetrates the neck of the hare when the noose tightens and causes 
immediate strangulation. 
Then there is the hare-pipe which was prohibited by the Game Laws 
so long ago as the time of Richard II (13 Rich. II, c. 13). This statute 
prohibited the use by unauthorized persons of dogs for hunting, 
ferrets, nets, hare -pipes, or other engines to take or destroy hares, 
etc., and in James the First’s time the statute 1 Jac. I, c. 27 enacted 
that every person who should at any time take or destroy any hares 
with hare -pipes, cords or any such instruments or other instruments 
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