Hunting the Hare (I)

DESCRIPTION: The hunter and his hounds chase the hare into the hay, barley, wheat, rye, and oats where, finally, "the hounds tore out the poor puss's guts"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1890 (Reeves-TheEverlastingCircle)
KEYWORDS: death hunting animal dog food
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Reeves-TheEverlastingCircle 66, "Hunting the Hare" (1 text)
Roud #1041
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Somersetshire Hunting Song" (subject)
NOTES [41 words]: There is a fairly well-known Middle English piece, "The Hunting of the Hare," published in volume III of Henry William Weber, Metrical Romances Of The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, And Fifteenth Centuries, volume III (1810), pp. 279-290. This is not it.
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