1S4 RED DEER. 



made for the gateway ; so soon as lie was 

 touched, he began to bite as only a badger 

 can. The young fellow was terribly hurt, both 

 his arms and legs having suffered, and had to 

 keep his bed for some time. Indignant at 

 the faithless conduct of his associates, who 

 had so meanly abandoned him, he renounced 

 poaching. Besides watching the net the 

 poacher watches to see if a keeper ap- 

 proaches. The keeper knows as well as 

 the poacher where hares run, and suspects 

 that certain gateways may be netted. If he 

 sees the keeper coming he snatches up his 

 net and bolts, and this he is sometimes 

 obliged to do at the very moment the hare 

 has entered the meshes, so that in tearing up 

 the net he turns her out, unexpectedly free. 

 The netting of partridges depends on a 

 habit these birds have of remaining still on 

 the ground at night until forced to move. 

 Roosting on the ground, they will not rise 

 till compelled ; and the same thing may be 

 observed of larks, who lie quiet at night till 



