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Show HARE AN ELUSIVE ANIMAL. Writer Tolls of Charm of Hunting I Small Creature. To my notion, there Ih a peculiar charm about trailing n hare, writes Hdvvyn Sandys In February Outing. In the first placo thero Is n superb uncertainty uncer-tainty nbcut whero you will bcato tho V beast, If It knows whero It Is Itself. "' You find n fresh track, and If wlso, you follow It In what apparently la tho wrong direction, and then well, you Just kuop on following. Somewhere Some-where perhaps only a few yards to one sldo of where you struck tho track, Is the other end, nnd, ot courso, n hnro. You acquire wisdom concerning concern-ing this smnll technicality Inter pos slbly hours later but thnt does not of necessltw spoil tho sport. It may be tho track Is first found in a briery thicket, which hampers nil tho rising ground, marking the edge of a great svvurapy woodland. It Is easy In fact, almost too easy. Tho hro lores swampy woodland, so, of ccursc, he-merely he-merely hns skipped for a trilling die tnnco nlong the rim, ns it were, of thc-doprosHlon, thc-doprosHlon, then gone down nnd squatted squat-ted under some handy log, from which shelter you will bounco him within flvo minutes. Theoretically this Is soiuid;practicaIly It Is a 100 to-1 to-1 f-hot on nn utteily unreliable Up. Impulse prompts you to slant down townrd the swnmp at onco, to Jump him from somewhere, promptly knock him over and bo dono with It. This B will snvo useless pottering over fool- H Ish tracks, and also somo valuable-lime. |