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now suspects danger. Bound and round she 

 flies, endeavouring to gain sufficiently on the 

 dog to be able to leap at some favourable 

 place in the hedge, and so to get through and 

 away. Sometimes she cannot do it ; the 

 lurcher overtakes her, and either seizes her, 

 or forces her to the net ; sometimes she in- 

 creases her distance sufficiently, leaps at the 

 hedge, is through and safe. It is the hedge 

 and wall that trouble her so ; she cannot put 

 forth her swiftest pace and go right away ; 

 she must course in a circle. This is another 

 reason why the poacher falls on the hare the 

 instant she strikes the net, because if she 

 does escape she will always remember and 

 be so difficult to take afterwards. Several 

 poachers often go out like this in the evening, 

 one one way and another another, and so 

 scour the fields. 



A young fellow once, who wanted some 

 money and had heard of the hauls made 

 by a gang of poachers joined them, and his 

 first essay on the following night was with 



