Sport in art; an iconography of sport during four hundred years from the beginning of the fifteenth of the end of the eighteenth centuries (1913)
Baillie-Grohman, William A. (William Adolph), 1851-1921 · London, Ballantyne and co., ltd · leaf 60
ole and sound.Netting hares and other small game came within the wide scope of Gaston deFoixs instructive treatise, and the pictures of it convince one that a good deal ofskill and patience as well as knowledge were required. Fig. 16 shows one method,32 g^STO\ T>8 FOIX viz. hare-snaring with… … FIG. 17. NETTING HARES AT CROSS-ROADS. FROM GASTON DE FOIXS MS. See Tage 33 Fig. 17 illustrates another method ot mounting nets at cross-roads, and hares beingdriven into them under cover of darkness. In this kind of poaching only thelower classes took a hand, or hunt servants when their masters…
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