He flies annoyed him greatly, now settlin

A fox or a polecat would surely have been baffled, either at the leaping

places or where
the hares had crossed through the shallow water. Man's intelligence,
united with the intelligence, the eagerness, the pace, the endurance, and the marvellous powers of scent possessed by a score of hounds, and then pitted against a single creature fleeing for its life, should well nigh inevitably
attain its end. Nature has not yet taught her weaklings

how to match that powerful combination.
And so a naturalist, in studying the artifices adopted
by hunted animals, should be interested chiefly as to
how such
artifices would succeed against pursuers unassisted by human intelligence. I am inclined

to believe that even a p ack of well-trained harriers would have been unable to follow
the doe-hares I have referred
to, unless the scent lay unusually well on the surface of the marsh. I stayed in the covert awhile, but when the call came for me to rejoin Philip I hastened
to the field in which he was waiting. I
told him what I had seen, and, together, we paid a visit to the doe-hares'
"forms." One of the "forms" lay in a clump of fern and brambles near the corner of a fallow,
the other on a slight elevation

where
a hedger had thrown some "trash" beside a ditch

in a field of
unripe wheat. While we stood in the wheat-field, Philip remarked: "We mustn't stay long before going back to the Crag;
but I'll call the doe I sent you from this 'form,' and perhaps you'll see
one of her tricks to mislead a fox as she returns home. She's very careful of her young till they're ab