RED DEER. 



of it heavy and close to the earth, and in 

 action somewhat resembles a trawl. The 

 poachers know where birds are roosting, and 

 drag the net over them. They will not 

 move till then, when they rise, and the in- 

 stant the poachers hear anything in the net 

 they drop it, and find the birds beneath it. 

 Poaching varies in localities ; where hares 

 abound it is hare-poaching, or rabbits as 

 the case may be. 



The most desperate poachers are those 

 who enter the woods in the winter for 

 pheasants. They shoot pheasants, and 

 sometimes in the deep-wooded coombes, 

 where the sound rolls and echoes for several 

 seconds from the rocks, it is difficult to 

 tell where the gun was fired. It might 

 have been at one end of the valley or at 

 the other. The gangs, however, who shoot 

 pheasants openly declare their indifference 

 as to whether they are detected or not. 



