The Badminton Magazine 1896-09: Vol 3 Iss 14 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 73
326 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE default, for an hare maketh sometimes so many doubles, crossings, etc., that an hound cannot well tell where he is, nor which way to make it out, nor will doe anything else (in manner) but hold up their heads and looke to the huntsman for helpe and comfort, … which he cannot so well do if the other huntsmen have beaten and foyled the traces with their feet or the feet of their horses.’ This passage reminds me of a work written in the early part of the eighteenth century, where the writer takes quite a different view. ‘Hare hunting,’ he says, ‘is much…
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