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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: late in the day, the time has come for the huntsman to look for his
hare that lies dead-beat; nor must he wittingly leave any patch of
green or clod of earth untested.[41] Backwards and forwards he must
try and try again the ground,[42] to be sure that nothing has been
overlooked. The fact is, the little creature lies in a small compass,
and from fatigue and fear will not get up. As he leads the hounds on
he will cheer and encourage them, addressing with many a soft term the
docile creature, the self-willed, stubborn brute more rarely, and to a
moderate extent the hound of average capacity, till he either succeeds
in running down or driving into the toils some victim.[43] After which
he will pick up his nets, both small and large alike, giving every
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