The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . the bank of a widishstream or river it is more than probable that thehare has swum across and is forward A hare hasbeen known to swim three-quarters of a mile fromthe mainland to a small island in a lake in CountyKerry. Give your hounds plenty of time is agood motto for the hare-hunter. Their noses are sogood that, when scent is fairly holding, they arepretty certain to make good their line. Muchlifting of hounds to the halloo forward is to In-deprecated ; but, particularly in the case of a footpack, there are occasion
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . the bank of a widishstream or river it is more than probable that thehare has swum across and is forward A hare hasbeen known to swim three-quarters of a mile fromthe mainland to a small island in a lake in CountyKerry. Give your hounds plenty of time is agood motto for the hare-hunter. Their noses are sogood that, when scent is fairly holding, they arepretty certain to make good their line. Muchlifting of hounds to the halloo forward is to In-deprecated ; but, particularly in the case of a footpack, there are occasions, especially when scent isfailing somewhat and the huntsman is prettycertain that the halloo is a trustworthy one. whenthe pack can be lifted with advantage. In such acase do not dally ; get forward as hard and asquickly as you like ; there is nothing like pressinga sinking hare. But it is a sound maxim neverto lift hounds—as it is never to halloo—when theyare running the line. Sometimes a squatting hare will completelybaffle not only hounds, but the foot people who. A SUSSEX MEET. arc busily engaged in looking her up. I remembera very curious termination to a run, a good manyyears ago, when hunting with the Foxbush Har-riers, in Kent. We ran a hare hard for nearly anhour, and then lost her. Almost immediately wepicked up a fresh hare, which afforded us also afirst-rate run, and finally brought us back to theground from which we had roused her. Here wesuddenly came upon our first hunted hare, whichby this time was so stiff that she could scarcelyraise a canter. We had then the singular spec-tacle of the pack running both hares in view, andkilling them within ten yards of one another. Road hunting is a peculiar gift, which not manvhounds possess. I have in mind an old, cleverharrier, named Captain, of the Hailsham pack,who would pick out the scent of a hare down alane or road with almost unerring accural y. Therest of the pack knew very well this gift of Cap-tains, and inva
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