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Otago Daily Times, Issue 670, 10 February 1864, Page 5

A Sporting Incident in France.—M. A., with his^ little dog, a pointer, was proceeding' across a field, when a timid hare, very shortsighted, as is the nature of that animal, ran right between his legs; the pointer, being a good family dog of all work, give chase, turned the hare like a greyhound, and when it came within range, M. A. broke its legs with the first barrel, and finished it with the second. Great rejoicing on the part of A. and his staunch pointer. A., having duly examined his prize—we don't kill lepus here every day—proceeded to pack him up in that strange contrivance, called " gibeciere," a cross between a bag and a net, which our sportsmen much affect. The stowing away took some few minutes, and during the:operation other performers, to the number of four, appeared on the scene, eachon his arrival claiming the hare. First came the: proprietor of the land on which the hare was killed; then arrived, in hot haste, the tenant; to, him succeeded the renter of the shooting; and,/finally, out of breath and temper, ap r peareda sportsman, with two "running dogs," who had "put up" the game on his own land, and coursed it to the scene where M. A. gave it the "coup de grace.": Each in his turn produced his license—a copy of the game laws—l believe his certificate of baptism, and then claimed " poor puss," which was finally taken by a municipal authority, and ** adhuc sub judice lis est," Whoever gets this vexatious hare will, I fear, find it rather high, "une peu faisande," as he will say iimself.—" Letter from Paris."