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entrance. Several snares may be placed along the run, midway 

 between the patches, and about half a dozen yards from one to 

 another. The noose should be about 4 in. in diameter, the 

 height from the ground being measured by placing the hand side- 

 ways in the run and extending only the thumb upwards ; the lower 

 side of the noose should then rest on the top of it. 



FIG. 128. SNARE SET FOR HARE. 



Netting hares is a very old way 1 of taking them alive, and 

 is carried on by dogs, trained for the purpose of driving, and are 

 as adept at hares as are sheep-dogs at sheep-penning, and are 

 usually known as lurchers. Two persons, both, as well as a dog ; 

 well up to the "game," are needed. Hares are known to be feed- 

 ing, or having fed well, " squatted " in a clover or other field ; then, 



1 Practised by " never work " unlegalizecl sportsmen on moor-edge farms 

 and other out-of-the-way districts. 



