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GAME NOTES AND FOLK-LORE. 



Pheasant-poachers go to the centre of a 

 copse, in which they know there are plenty 

 of birds, and make pheasant-creeps. The 

 pheasant is a bird which runs a great deal, 

 and prefers to creep through bushes rather 

 than to fly over. They make tracks through 

 the undergrowth in the copse, and it is 

 across these favourite paths that the poachers 

 form artificial creeps. Briars are pulled 

 down and bent over, bushes broken, or cut 

 half through, so that they will bend, boughs 

 dragged down, and a hedge constructed in 

 the middle of the cover. 



Through this hedge they leave holes, or 

 ' creeps,' for the pheasants to run through, 

 and in these holes place wires with loops to 



