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keepers wish the pheasants to avoid certain 

 exits from the covers, and to direct them to- 

 wards points where sportsmen are placed, they 

 set men with two sticks to knock together 

 in the same way, and at this noise the birds 

 turn back, and run in the direction required. 

 Driven before the poacher's tap, tap, the 

 pheasants presently come to the artificial 

 hedge, and creeping without hesitation 

 through the holes left for them, are noosed 

 by the wires. When the poachers come up 

 they put the captured birds alive in a bag, 

 and then go to the other end of the 

 cover, and repeat the process, and so 

 catch all in the copse ; first the birds are 

 driven into the wires from one end of the 

 copse, and then from the other. Poachers 

 also look out for the creeps which the 

 pheasants have made for themselves over 

 mounds. They wander a good deal from 

 cover, and especially towards barley and 

 barley-stubble, called barley-harrish in Eed 



