This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]

nonsummer months

Every fullholder should, before these living fences are laid out, plant nursery beds of hawthorn at his hearth-site, in quantities that will eventually provide quite a large number of hawthorn saplings.

This can not often be had in the turbulent atmosphere of the Middle Ages through which long-range telepathograms must of necessity pass.