The tail is inconvenient for running, being not proper to guide the body on account of its ſhortneſs: but ſhe does that with either of her ears; and when ſhe is near being taken by the dogs, ſhe lays down one of her ears and ſtretches it out toward the ſide in which ſhe thinks ſhe ſhall ſuffer hurt, by which means ſhe turns inſtantly, throwing the dogs that are daſhing at her a great way behind.
This animal is ſo pleaſing, that whoever ſees it either trailed, or found, or purſued, or taken [1], forgets every thing elſe that he is moſt attached to.
In hunting in cultivated places the Sportſman ſhould abstain from damaging the fruits of the earth that are in ſeaſon, and ſhould leave [2] fountains and ſtreams unex-
- ↑ Where are their ſorrows, diſappointments, wrongs,
Vexations, ſickneſs, cares? All are gone,
And with the panting winds lag all behind.
Somerville's Chace. - ↑ I ſuppoſe as being deemed ſacred.
not much more different from the text, viz. δῆλον δὲ τουτο ἐν χιὸνι, i. e. "this diſpoſition of the feet is manifeſt in the ſnow." And this, becauſe it is the only mean by which it can be obſerved, and becauſe Xenophon muſt have been particularly attentive to this circumſtance, he having an entire chapter on Tracing.
