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WITH XATURE AND A (^AMEUA. 



feet alon<i" the <^Tound, and tlie still iiiiilit air was 

 rent by the most ])itcous child-like skirlinu' J ever 

 had the ill-fortune to hear. The noise was of short 

 duration, however, for the poacher with whom I 

 stood threw himself upon the Hare and net and 

 ended poor Pussy's squealing- for ever. 'Flic do,<i' 



HARE-NET ON GATE. 



never uttered a sound of any kind, and I oid\' saw 

 it once as it peeped between the l)ars of the nate 

 throu<i;'h which the victim had come until Ave all 

 met behind an old barn in a lonely place; half a 

 mile away. 



Hares will often take a net set in this way 

 in broad daylight if \\\g\ ai'e hard pressed by a 

 swift do^-, and the accompanying- ])ictures, taken 

 b\' special arriin^iciiiciit witli llic jii;iii in llicm, 

 illustrate how the Irick is done. 



