The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . A SQUASH BALL AND A RUGBY FIVES BALL.(Photo : H. Mason, Cambridge.) 179. BEAGLES.(Photo : C. HeiJ. Wlshaw.) HARE HUNTING. By H. A. BRYDEN. THE chase of the hare, always a sport of greatdelight to many of our remoter ancestors,suffered some eclipse during the heydayof fox hunting, say from 1800 to 1875. The fox-hunter of that jovial period had it all his own way,and, led by Ximrod and other sporting writers,was rather apt to indulge in cheap sneers at the currant jelly dogs and their followers. No-one has a greater admi
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . A SQUASH BALL AND A RUGBY FIVES BALL.(Photo : H. Mason, Cambridge.) 179. BEAGLES.(Photo : C. HeiJ. Wlshaw.) HARE HUNTING. By H. A. BRYDEN. THE chase of the hare, always a sport of greatdelight to many of our remoter ancestors,suffered some eclipse during the heydayof fox hunting, say from 1800 to 1875. The fox-hunter of that jovial period had it all his own way,and, led by Ximrod and other sporting writers,was rather apt to indulge in cheap sneers at the currant jelly dogs and their followers. No-one has a greater admiration for fox hunting thanthe present writer ; yet, haying tested in manycountries, from early youth, various forms ofhunting, one may say that for pure, unalloyedsporting interest in the true science of the game,seeing hounds work, puzzling out the wide rings,the cunning mazes, and the many shifts and ex-pedients to which the hare resorts m her efforts toget del of the too persevering pack, hare huntingoffers pleasures which, in their own way, areinimitable, not to be surpassed even by the bolderand fiercer chase of the fox itself. While fe
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