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24 ſhe continues even while they are trailing to her, unleſs ſhe has been much alarmed in the night, in which caſe ſhe will move.

She is ſo prolific, that at the ſame time ſhe will have young ones, be bringing forth others, and have newly conceived. The ſcent of young Hares is ſtronger than that of full grown ones; for, their limbs being tender, their whole body drags on the ground.

Thoſe which are too young the fair Sportfman will ſpare. Thoſe of a year old will run the firſt ring very ſwiftly, but not at all afterwards, being very active, but weak. To take the trail of the Hare the dogs ſhould be drawn from the cultivated fields upwards; (i. e. towards the mountains;) but thoſe who do not come into cultivated places muſt be tried for in meadows, marſhes, Rh