"...we used, in order to draw oft' the harriers from the trail of a hare that we had set down as our own private property, get to her haunt early in the morning, and drag a red-herring, tied to a string, four or five miles over hedges and ditches..." For the full original story by Cobbett, see "Continental War"نسخة محفوظة 2016-06-29 على موقع واي باك مشين. on pg. 231-33 of Political Register, February 14, 1807. In Cobbett's political register, Volume XI, 1807نسخة محفوظة 2016-08-03 على موقع واي باك مشين. at أرشيف الإنترنت
توماس ناش. (1599) Nashes Lenten Stuffeنسخة محفوظة 2011-07-15 على موقع واي باك مشين. "Next, to draw on hounds to a sent, to a redde herring skinne there is nothing comparable." (Since Nashe makes this statement not in a serious reference to hunting but as an aside in a humorous pamphlet, the professed aim of which is to extol the wonderful virtues of red herrings, it need not be evidence of actual practice. In the same paragraph he makes other unlikely claims, such as that the fish dried and powdered is a prophylactic for kidney or gallstones.)
"...we used, in order to draw oft' the harriers from the trail of a hare that we had set down as our own private property, get to her haunt early in the morning, and drag a red-herring, tied to a string, four or five miles over hedges and ditches..." For the full original story by Cobbett, see "Continental War"نسخة محفوظة 2016-06-29 على موقع واي باك مشين. on pg. 231-33 of Political Register, February 14, 1807. In Cobbett's political register, Volume XI, 1807نسخة محفوظة 2016-08-03 على موقع واي باك مشين. at أرشيف الإنترنت
توماس ناش. (1599) Nashes Lenten Stuffeنسخة محفوظة 2011-07-15 على موقع واي باك مشين. "Next, to draw on hounds to a sent, to a redde herring skinne there is nothing comparable." (Since Nashe makes this statement not in a serious reference to hunting but as an aside in a humorous pamphlet, the professed aim of which is to extol the wonderful virtues of red herrings, it need not be evidence of actual practice. In the same paragraph he makes other unlikely claims, such as that the fish dried and powdered is a prophylactic for kidney or gallstones.)
haunt – Wiktionary defines haunt as a "place at which one is regularly found; a hangout", but it can also mean a "feeding place for animals", both senses would work here.
