8.8
If she wriggles out of the hayes, run after her along the tracks. She will make for other places of the same sort, unless indeed she squeezes herself into the snow itself. Wherever she may be, mark the place and surround it; or, if she doesn’t wait, continue the pursuit. For she will be caught even without the hayes; for she soon tires owing to the depth of the snow, and because large lumps of it cling to the bottom of her hairy feet.
9.1
For hunting fawns and deerThe red deer is meant. Hunting the calves immediately after their birth seems a poor game; but no doubt they were good eating. use IndianThibet dogs, called by Grattius (159) Seres. hounds; for they are strong, big, speedy and plucky, and these qualities render them capable of hard work. Hunt the calves in spring, since they are born at that season.
9.2
First go to the meadows and reconnoitre, to discover where hinds are most plentiful. Wherever they are, let the keeper of the houndsThe Keeper of hounds has not been mentioned in connection with hare hunting. Apparently he is the person to whom all these instructions are addressed. go with the hounds and javelins to this place before daybreak and tie up the dogs to trees some distance off, so that they may not catch sight of the hinds and bark, and let him watch from a coign of vantage.
