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I SOME QUEER OLD SPORTING TERMS In old English sporting terms applied to hounds and grev hounds of greyhounds, two make a brace; of hounds, a couple, and of greyhounds three make a leash, and of hounds a couple and a half; they say let slip a greyhound, and throw off a hound. The string or cord by which a greyhound is led is called a leash, and that of a hound a learn, hum or lyome. , . As to the lodgings of beasts of chase a badger earths, a boar couches, a buck lodges, a rabbit sits or earths, a fox kennels, a roe beds, a hare seats or forms, a stag harbors, a marten trees, an otter watches. The terms used for game in company were: A herd of deer, a bevy of roes, a sounder of swine, a rout of wolves, a richness of martens, a brace or leash of foxes, a couple of rabbits.
