ABSTRACT
THis fort of Dogs, which compaffeth all by crafts, fraudes, and fubtilties and deceits, we Engftjb-*7<72 call Tumblers, becaufe in hunting they turn and tumble, winding their bodies about in circle wife, and then fiercely and violently venturing upon the beaft, doth fuddenly gripe i t , at the very entrance and mouth of their receptacles, or clofets before they can recover means, to fave and fuccour themfelves. This D o g ufeth another craft and fubtilty, namely, when he runneth into a Warren, or fetcheth a courfe about a Conyburrough, he hunts not after them, he frayes them not by barking, he makes no countenance or flhadow of hatred againft them, but diffembling friendfliip, and pretending favour, pafleth by with filence and quietnefs, marking and noting their hole? diligently, wherein (1 warrant you J he will not be overfhot nor deceived. When he cometh to the place where Conies be of a certainty, he cowcheth down clofe with his belly to the ground, p ro - vided alwayes by his skill and policy, that the winde be never with him but againft him in fuch an enterpr i fc i and that the Conies f p y h i m n o t where he lurketh. By which means he obtaineth the fcent and favour of the Conies, carryed towards him with the winde and the air, either going t o their holes or coming out , either palling this way, or running that way, and fo provideth by his circumfpedion, that the filly fimple Cony is debarred quite f rom his hole (which is the haven of their hope, and the harbour of their health) and fraudulently circumvented and taken, before they can get the advantage of their hole. Thus having caught his prey, hecarryeth it fpeedily to his Mafter, waiting his Dogs return in fome convenient lurking corner.
