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GAME NOTES AND FOLK-LORE. 



PHEASANT-POACHERS go to the centre of a 

 copse, in which they know there are plenty 

 of birds, and make pheasant-creeps. The 

 pheasant is a bird which runs a great deal, 

 and prefers to creep through bushes rather 

 than to fly over. They make tracks through 

 the undergrowth in the copse, and it is across 

 these favourite paths that the poachers form 

 artificial creeps. Briars are pulled down and 

 bent over, bushes broken, or cut half through, 

 so that they will bend, boughs dragged down, 

 and a hedge constructed in the middle of the 

 cover. 



Through this hedge they leave holes, or 

 " creeps," for the pheasants to run through, 



