# The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908

Author: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23514

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Long+Hillside+A+Christmas+Hare-Hunt+In+Old+Virginia+1908+Page&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There do not seem to be as many hares now as there used to be when I was a boy. Then the "old fields" and branch-bottoms used to be full of them. They were peculiarly our game; I mean we used to consider that they belonged to us boys. They were rather scorned by the "gentlemen," by which was meant the grown-up gentlemen, who shot partridges over the pointers, and only picked up a hare when she got in their way. And the negroes used to catch them in traps or "gums," which were traps made of hollow gum-tree logs. But we boys were the hare-hunters. They were our property from our childhood; just as much, we considered, as "Bruno" and "Don," the beautiful "crack" pointers, with their brown ey...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-long-hillside-a-christmas-hare-hunt-in-old-virginia-1908-23514/chapters/1/index.md)