RED DEER. 



the rabbits are out feeding in the pasture, 

 so as to cut off their return to their burrows. 

 Either one of the poachers or a lurcher next 

 go round some distance and drive every- 

 thing towards it, while the other poachers 

 stand behind the net to take out the rabbits 

 as they come. In a moment or two they 

 rush from all quarters helter-skelter in the 

 darkness, and bound into the net. The 

 rabbit's head enters the mesh, and he rolls 

 over, causing it to bag round him. The 

 poachers endeavour to get them out as fast 

 as they come to prevent their escape, and 

 to make ready for fresh captives. They 

 wring the rabbits' necks, killing them in- 

 stantly. Sometimes the rabbits come in 

 such numbers and all together in a crowd, so 

 that they cannot get them out fast enough, 

 and a few manage to escape. Once, however, 

 the rabbit's head is well through the mesh, he 

 is generally safe for a quarter of an hour. 



