Womankind in Western Europe From the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century
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229 is armed with a gimpler weapon, apparently a mere club, with wHch she seeks to knock the rabbits on the head. The latter appear to be under no great fear of their assailants. The feudal ladies seem to have been well- practised in the use of the bow. Another cut, which we here give from the same manuscript, was evidently drawn with a satirical aim. The lady has taken her little pet dog to the ohace, and has started the game without difficulty ; but she finds it much less easy to encourage he...r animal to the attack, while the rabbits, which look more formidable by their magnitude, appear to be rather amused than otherwise with his comical figure and costume. There was another way of taking rabbits, which appears to have been a favourite among the ladies, that of drawing them out of their burrov^s with ferrets. The use of the ferret for this purpose is certainly of great antiquity, FERKETING THE liABBIT. for Pliny (Hist. N., lib. viii., c. 81) speaks of it as common among the Romans in Italy ; and we can have no doubt of its being general in the JCiddle Ages.
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