FORM
—is the spot in which the HARE takes her seat at the dawn of day, to secrete herself, after making her various work in the night (or rather in the early part of the morning) to avoid discovery. When found sitting, she is said to be in her FORM. If shot as she sits, without being previously disturbed, she is then said to have been shot in her form. Hares vary their sitting according to the season, the sun, and the wind. Soon after harvest they are found in wheat, barley, and oat stubbles, as well as in rushy grassy moors; after these get bare, they retire to coverts, banks, hedges, and hedge-rows. After Christmas, and in the spring months, dry fallows, particularly those laying towards the sun with an ascent, are seldom without hares, if there are any in the neighbourhood.