FT^rsrnArixa the poach khs. it.", 



I knew a cininiiii;' old ^-amekeeper in Yorksliiic 

 Avho usod to frustrate the efforts of people who 

 practised this kind oi poacliino- by what he called 

 " mistetchin<>- '' the Hares on his beat every autumn. 

 He netted as many of them as he could himself, 

 and then turned them k)Ose au'ain. The conse- 



quence was that a Hare that had once struiziiled 

 within the meshes of a net would rarely <j;'o tlirou<>h 

 a gateway or sheep-creep (a hole in a stone wall 

 to let sheep through from one tield to another) 

 unless absolutely forced to do so by an exceedingly 

 swift dog-. I have seen a Hare which this man had 

 had in a net leap a stone fence quite six feet high. 

 She bounded on to it sideways, and then leapt 

 quietly down (m the other side. 



These animals have a peculiar habit which they 



