them off; the Scent is Old. When the _Hare_ is started and on Foot,
step in where you saw her pass, and hollow in your _Hounds_ till they
have undertaken it, then go on with full Cry. Above all be sure to
observe her first Doubling, which must be your direction for all that
day; for all her other after Doublings will be like that. When she is
thus reduced to the _slights_ and _shifts_ she makes by Doublings and
Windings, give your Dogs _Time_ and _Place_ enough to cast about your
Rings, for unwinding the same; and observe her _leaps_ and _skips_
before she squat, and beat curiously all likely places of Harbour: She
is soon your Prey now.

_Of Coney-Catching._

Their _Seasons_ are alwayes, and the way of taking them thus: Set
Pursenets on their Holes, and put in a _Ferret_ close muzzled, and she
will bolt them out (being a natural Enemy to them) into the Nets: Or
blow on the suddain the Drone of a Bag-Pipe into the Burrows, and they
will boult out: Or for want of either of these two, take powder of
_Orpine_ and _Brimstone_ and boult them out with the Smother: But pray
use this last seldom, unless you would destroy your Warren. But for this
sport _Hays_ are to be preferred above all.

_Of Fox Hunting._

_January_, _February_, and _March_, are the best Seasons for Hunting the
_Fox_ above ground, the scent being then strong, and the coldest Weather
for the _Hounds_, and best finding his Earthing. Cast off your sure
Finders first, and as the _Drag_ mends, more; but not too many at once,
because of the Variety of Chaces in Woods and Coverts. The night before
the day of Hunting, when the _Fox_ goes to prey at midnight, find his
Earths, and stop them with Black Thorns and Earth. To find him draw your
_Hounds_ about Groves, Thickets, and Bushes near Villages; Pigs and
Poultrey inviting him to such Places to Lurk in. They make their Earths
in hard Clay, stony ground, and amongst Roots of Trees; and have but one
Hole straight and long. He is usually taken, with _Hounds_,
_Grey-Hounds_, _Terriers_, _Nets_ and _Gins_.

_Of Badger-Hunting._

This Creature has several Names, as _Gray_, _Brock_, _Boreson_, or
_Bauson_; and is hunted thus. First go seek the Earths and Burrows where
he lieth, and in a clear Moon-shine Night, stop all the Holes but one or
two, and in these fasten Sacks with drawing strings; and being thus set,
cast off your _Hounds_ and beat all the Groves, Hedges, and Tuffs within
a mile or two about, and b