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hedge, place a trap on each side, and at the points where the beats 

 are taken up and down. The traps should be visited late in the 

 evening and a couple of hours after sunrise, the captured hare 

 " crying " so as to call attention of men or animals, and tempt 

 these to take unfair possession of it. 



Hares are easily snared, the snares, called " hare," being strongly 

 made, and costing 35. 6d. per dozen complete. They are best 

 secured by iron trap stakes instead of wooden ones, as they can 



FIG. 127. LANE'S IMPROVED DORSET RABBIT-TRAP SET FOR HARE. 



be driven out of sight, though some gin-setters prefer pieces of 

 sapling ash, well sharpened, instead of the ordinary split wooden 

 peg, or even iron peg, driven so as to show no " white " to alarm 

 the hare. The best places for setting snares for hares are gaps 

 in hedges and gateways noticed to be much used, also tracks in 

 clover fields, etc., especially where clover has been freshly cut, 

 though the better place is the run leading to the form, or at its 

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