Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . , AND lUkl) IOACIIIIKS waits for its master to o-jvcs his orders to round up the o;anie. The poacher makes the sit^mal and the dop; silently moves away like ashadow. It encircles the field and shows itself for an instant at various pointson all sides and alarms the hares just a little. In this manner it gets all the hares into the centre of thethrough a gap in the hedgetake to flight, and usuallyfew seconds a couple ofgled in the meshes andinto a sack. Then the field and then the dog makes a break In an instant the hares towards the g
Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . , AND lUkl) IOACIIIIKS waits for its master to o-jvcs his orders to round up the o;anie. The poacher makes the sit^mal and the dop; silently moves away like ashadow. It encircles the field and shows itself for an instant at various pointson all sides and alarms the hares just a little. In this manner it gets all the hares into the centre of thethrough a gap in the hedgetake to flight, and usuallyfew seconds a couple ofgled in the meshes andinto a sack. Then the field and then the dog makes a break In an instant the hares towards the gate. In a them are hopelessly entan- are soon popped poacher gathers up. his net, the dog returns to heel and the pair steal away. IMind you, all thistime the man has been concealed; the dog has not shown itself, and aboveall, absolute silence has been maintained. The writers have seen a poachertake hares in this way while a large party of country folks were haymakingright in the next field. Rabbits are captured by netting the burrow holes and turning a ferretloose in the warren to drive the bunnies out. Another way of catchmgrabbits is by placing a loop of brass wire, about five or six inches in diameterin their runways. The end of the wire is fastened to a wooden peg whichis firmly driven in the ground. The bunny, in running along, gets its headthrough the loop, and, in its frantic struggles to escape, is soon strangled todeath for it always pulls forward. Pheasants are artificial birds which were imported from China over acentury ago and are now raised for shooting purposes. The pheasants have numbers of enemies and some of them do not getcredit for the
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