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The Sportsman by Xenophon
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When his eye has lit upon the object of his search, he will approach
quite close. The fawn will keep perfectly still, glued[13] as it were
to earth, and with loud bleats suffer itself to be picked up; unless
it happen to be drenched with rain; in which case, it will not stay
quiet in one place. No doubt, the internal moisture of the animal
congeals quickly with the cold[14] and causes it to shift its ground.
Caught in that case it must needs be; but the hounds will have work
enough to run the creature down.[15] The huntsman having seized the
fawn, will hand it to the keeper. The bleating will continue; and the
hind, partly seeing and partly hearing, will bear down full tilt upon
the man who has got her young, in her desire to rescue it. Now is the
moment to urge on the hounds and ply the javelins. And so having
mastered this one, he will proceed against the rest, and employ the
same method of the chase in dealing with them.

[13] {piesas}, "noosling, nestling, buried."

[14] "The blood runs cold."

[15] Or, "but it will give them a good chase; the dogs will have their
work cut out."

Young fawns may be captured in the way described. Those that are
already big will give more trouble, since they graze with their
mothers and the other deer, and when pursued retire in the middle of
the herd or occasionally in front, but very seldom in the rear. The
deer, moreover, in order to protect their young will do battle with
the hounds and trample them under foot; so that capture is not easy,
unless you come at once to close quarters and scatter the herd, with
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