584 MODERN FARRIER. 



being committed to the house of correction, there to 

 be whipped and kept to hard labour for a period not 

 exceeding one month, nor less than ten days. 



The partridge season commences on the 1st of 

 September, and ends the 1st of February. The 

 pheasant season begins the 1st of October, and con- 

 cludes with the 1st of February. The possession 

 of either of these species of game at any other 

 period (except where they are kept tame) subjects 

 the party to a penalty of five pounds for every bird 

 (2 Geo. III. c. 19, and 39 Geo. III. c. 34). 



The taking of wild ducks, teal, widgeons, &c. 

 between the 1st of June and the 1st of October, 

 renders the party liable to the penalty of five shillings 

 (9 Anne, c. 25, and 10 Geo. II. c 32). 



The season for hare-hunting is from Michaelmas 

 till Candlemas ; but there does not appear to be any 

 penalty attached to the infraction of this law. 



For tracing hares in the snow a penalty of twenty 

 shillings is inflicted (1 Jac. 1. c 27), and the taking 

 them in snares or gins is punished in the same man- 

 ner. The 22d and 23d Car. II. inflicts a penalty of 

 ten shilHngs for this offence. These acts, however, 

 are not resorted to ; for the true sportsman will never 

 be guilty of such offences, and the poacher is more 

 effectually punished by the fine attached to his want 

 of certificate, &c. 



For woodcocks or snipes there is no specified time. 



To hunt or destroy game on a Sunday, or on 

 Christmas day, or in the night (that is, between 

 seven o'clock at night and six in the morning, from 

 the 12th of October to the 12th of February, and 

 between nine o'clock at night and four in the morn- 

 ing from the 12th of February to the 12th of Octo- 

 ber), renders the party liable to a penalty of not less 

 than ten pounds, nor more than twenty pounds, for 

 the first offence ; for the second, not less than twenty 

 pounds, nor more than thirty pounds ; half to the 

 informer, and half to the poor (13 Geo. Ill, c. 80). 



