the result that one or another of the fawns is isolated. The effort
implies[16] a strain, and the hounds will be left behind in the first
heat of the race, since the very absence of their dams[17] will
intensify the young deer's terror, and the speed of a fawn, that age
and size, is quite incredible.[18] But at the second or third run they
will be quickly captured; since their bodies being young and still
unformed cannot hold out long against fatigue.

[16] Lit. "after that violent effort."

[17] Or, "alarm at the absence of the herd will lend the creature
wings."

[18] Or, "is past compare"; "is beyond all telling."

Foot-gins[19] or caltrops may be set for deer on mountains, in the
neighbourhood of meadows and streams and wooded glens, on cross-
roads[20] or in tilled fields at spots which they frequent.[21] These
gins should be made of twisted yew twigs[22] stripped of the bark to
prevent their rotting. They should have well-rounded hooplike
"crowns"[23] with alternate rows of nails of wood and iron woven into
the coil.[24] The iron nails should be larger, so that while the
wooden ones yield to the foot, the others may press into it.[25] The
noose of the cord which will be laid upon "the crown" should be woven
out of esparto and so should the rope itself, this kind of grass being
least liable to rot. The rope and noose itself should both alike be
stout. The log or clog of wood attached should be made of common or of
holm oak with the bark on, three spans in length, and a palm in
thickness.[26]