he fawn will keep perfectly still, glued (13) as it were
to earth, and with loud bleats suffer itself to be picked up; unless it
happen to be drenched with rain; in which case, it will not stay quiet
in one place. No doubt, the internal moisture of the animal congeals
quickly with the cold (14) and causes it to shift its ground. Caught in
that case it must needs be; but the hounds will have work enough to run
the creature down. (15) The huntsman having seized the fawn, will hand
it to the keeper. The bleating will continue; and the hind, partly
seeing and partly hearing, will bear down full tilt upon the man who has
got her young, in her desire to rescue it. Now is the moment to urge
on the hounds and ply the javelins. And so having mastered this one, he
will proceed against the rest, and employ the same method of the chase
in dealing with them.

(13) {piesas}, "noosling, nestling, buried."

(14) "The blood runs cold."

(15) Or, "but it will give them a good chase; the dogs will have their
work cut out."

Young fawns may be captured in the way described. Those that are already
big will give more trouble, since they graze with their mothers and
the other deer, and when pursued retire in the middle of the herd or
occasionally in front, but very seldom in the rear. The deer, moreover,
in order to protect their young will do battle with the hounds and
trample them under foot; so that capture is not easy, unless you come at
once to close quarters and scatter the herd, with the result that one or
another of the fawns is isolated. The effort implies (16) a strain, and
the hounds will be left behind in the first heat of the race, since the
very absence of their dams (17) will intensify the young deer's terror,
and the speed of a fawn, that age and size, is quite incredible. (18)
But at the second or third run they will be quickly captured; since
their bodies being young and still unformed cannot hold out long against
fatigue.

(16) Lit. "after that violent effort."

(17) Or, "alarm at the absence of the herd will lend the creature
wings."

(18) Or, "is past compare"; "is beyond all telling."

Foot-gins (19) or caltrops may be set for deer on mountains, in the
neighbourhood of meadows and streams and wooded glens, on cross-roads
(20) or in tilled fields at spots which they frequent. (21) These gins
should be made of twisted yew twigs (22) stripped of the bark to prevent
their rotting. They should have wel