HUNTING WITH 

 FERRETS 



THE sport of hunting rabbits with a 

 ferret is bitterly inveighed against 

 by some hunters but it all de- 

 pends. In a country where there is plenty of 

 brush, and where the game stays in the cover 

 to a considerable extent, there is no need of a 

 ferret to rout them out. In some places a 

 man can go out and get all the rabbits he 

 wants even without a dog. And when rab- 

 bits are hunted with a dog they get a scare 

 that begins when they jump before the hound 

 and ends only when they are dropped by a 

 charge of shot. In using a ferret they are 

 given just one big fright, and then they bolt 

 and are killed by the hunter, who waits by 

 the burrow. It would be difficult to deter- 

 mine, from the rabbit's stand-point, which 

 mode of being killed it preferred. Long 

 pains are light ones; cruel ones are brief. 

 The chances are that it would infinitely pre- 

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