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WITH XATL'BE AM) A CAMERA. 



its travels reversed from outwards to inwards, and 

 ])asses away witli tlie excreta, thus rendering- the 

 bird's chances of discovery by a prowhng- enemy 

 nuiterially less. 



When young pheasants are hatched off they are 

 placed out in a clean field in coops, along with 

 their foster-mothers, and watched niglit and day 

 by the keepers in charge. In spite of this, liow- 



PHEASANT ON NEST. 



ever, they are sometimes stolen, and I know one 

 keeper in the Home Counties who had nearly all 

 his young birds taken away in a single niglit, al- 

 though they Avere being guarded by two watchei-s, 

 wlio had unfortunately had too much beer and 

 gone to sleep, and a retriever dog. 



The life of a gamekeeper who knows his diitN' 

 and does it conscientiously is bv no means the 

 sinecure some people imagine*. For, in addition to 

 destroying troublesome vermin of all kinds, he has 

 to circumvent the })lans of men who often know 

 (juite as much as himself. With \]\c genuin(> jtoaclier. 



