With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . HARE-NET ON GATE. never uttered a sound of any kind, and I oid\ sawit once as it peeped between the l)ars of the natethrou<i;h which the victim had come until Ave allmet behind an old barn in a lonely place; half amile away. Hares will often take a net set in this wayin broad daylight if \\\g\ aie hard pressed by aswift do^-, and the accompanying- ])ictures, takenb\ special arriin^iciiiciit witli llic jii;iii in llicm,illustrate how the Irick is done. FT^rsrnArixa the poachkhs.
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . HARE-NET ON GATE. never uttered a sound of any kind, and I oid\ sawit once as it peeped between the l)ars of the natethrou<i;h which the victim had come until Ave allmet behind an old barn in a lonely place; half amile away. Hares will often take a net set in this wayin broad daylight if \\\g\ aie hard pressed by aswift do^-, and the accompanying- ])ictures, takenb\ special arriin^iciiiciit witli llic jii;iii in llicm,illustrate how the Irick is done. FT^rsrnArixa the poachkhs. it., I knew a cininiiii; old ^-amekeeper in YorksliiicAvho usod to frustrate the efforts of people whopractised this kind oi poacliino- by what he called mistetchin- the Hares on his beat every netted as many of them as he could himself,and then turned them k)Ose auain. The conse-. quence was that a Hare that had once struiziiledwithin the meshes of a net would rarely <j;o tlirouha gateway or sheep-creep (a hole in a stone wallto let sheep through from one tield to another)unless absolutely forced to do so by an exceedinglyswift dog-. I have seen a Hare which this man hadhad in a net leap a stone fence quite six feet bounded on to it sideways, and then leaptquietly down (m the other side. These animals have a peculiar habit which they 17(i WITH NATURE JXI) A CAMERA. always practise just before j^oin^- on to their looks like a reasoned action deliberately executedto mislead prowling* enemies that track them bythe scent left in tlieir foot^^rints. It consists oftravelling- almost straight for a given distance, andthen doubling back right along their own pathagain thirty or forty yards, suddeidy leaving italtogetlier by a tremendous side-bound, and goingaway at right angles to their original })ath for somedistance before retiring to res
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