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Excerpt from Legends Superstitions Of such fleet creatures and it was noticed that a certain cottage in the place used to be shut up on the days when the sports were held, as if its solitary inmate, an had gone abroad somewhere. She usually worked, indeed, in the fields, so that this need not have been wondered at but her sour temper and ill habits had rendered her hateful to all her neighbours, so it was noways unnatural that suspicion should fall upon her to the purport that she was a witch, and consequently the identical mysterious hare. In order to test the truth of this, the master of the hounds was advised to get a black bloodhound, which must have been suckled at a woman's breast, and set it on the uncanny creature's track next time it appeared, when he was assured that its capture would be certain. A hound answering this description was accordingly got, and next field day it led the hunt. The hare had never been so closely followed up before. It made, as usual, direct for Easington; but instead of the hound being thrown off the scent, it kept up the pursuit until the old woman's cottage door was reached. A little hole had been cut in that door, for the hens to go in and out at. The hare rushed forward to get through the hole, but the black hound was too close behind to let it get in unscathed. Just as it was darting through, he caught it on the haunch, and tore away a bit of the flesh. The huntsmen hurried up, and, finding the door fast barred, they burst it open. On entering they saw one of the strangest sights that ever human eye was set on. No. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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