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happens to come near, and enquire if they have ſeen the dogs.
And, when he finds where they are, if they are ſtill on the ſcent, he ſhould come up to them and encourage them, calling each dog by his name as often as poſſible, and changing the tone of his voice to harſh, or ſoft, loud, or low, according to the circumſtance. And, if the Hare has made her courſe among the mountains, he ſhould alſo encourage them by faying, [1] That's good, Dogs! That's good, Dogs! but, if they have loſt their ſcent, he ſhould call them back, crying, [2] Halloo back, Dogs!
When they are brought back to the ſcent, he ſhould draw them round, making many rings. But, if the ſcent is quite loſt, he ſhould draw the dogs along by [3] the nets,
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- ↑ Εὖ κύνες, εὖ ὦ κύνες. Juſt as we do when a dog hits the Hare over a hard highway, or any other place, unfit to retain the ſcent, as was moſt probably the caſe with the rocky mountains of Attica. Mr. Beckford juſtly obſerves, it is as difficult to pen a hollow as a whiſper.
- ↑ Οὺ πάλιν οὺ πάλιν ὦ κύνες, or, as Leunclave reads, τ' ούμπαλιν.
- ↑ Σημείον θέσθαι ϛοῖχον ἑαυτω. Στοῖχον, in the hunting language of Greece, ſignified a range of nets by which the
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