. Ten years of game-keeping . Naturally .mummified stoats, after ten years exposure to all Ax ORDINARY GALLOWS. VERMIN AND TRAPPING 87 her, with a view to a photograph, I saw before Igot near the nest that something was radicallywrong. Stoats, I said to myself, and had a lookround. They had not interfered with the eggs,which, of course, were spoiled. I could see wherethe soft grass had been pressed aside in furrows asthe spoilers had passed on their tour of in their wake, I saw where they hadspread out as if scenting prey, or had paused toenjoy a gambol through
. Ten years of game-keeping . Naturally .mummified stoats, after ten years exposure to all Ax ORDINARY GALLOWS. VERMIN AND TRAPPING 87 her, with a view to a photograph, I saw before Igot near the nest that something was radicallywrong. Stoats, I said to myself, and had a lookround. They had not interfered with the eggs,which, of course, were spoiled. I could see wherethe soft grass had been pressed aside in furrows asthe spoilers had passed on their tour of in their wake, I saw where they hadspread out as if scenting prey, or had paused toenjoy a gambol through a hollow stump or rounda tree-trunk. Their direction told me where theywould be certain to take lodging—in a large solitarybavin-pile on the edge of a broad ride. Monday morning came, and two indignant keeperswho had set great store on the nest of that silvery-white pheasant went forth, each with a gun and apocketful of cartridges, and accompanied by the bestlittle terrier that ever lived. We went to the sceneof the ruined nest. We did not weep over it, but,having kindled our anger afresh, dec
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