vi Contents. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Page 



A Day's Ratting — An Autumn Walk — " Steady, Dogs, 



Steady" — A Ferret Disabled — Rats up a Pollard 



— A Rat-catcher's Picnic — Rats in a Drain — A 



Weary Walk Home — •" Kennel, Dogs, Kennel" . 67 



CHAPTER V. 



A Poor Day's Ratting — A Rat in a Queer Place — 

 Rats in my Lady's Chamber —Rats in a House — 

 Slaughter in a Cellar — Dead Rats in a House . 85 



CHAPTER VI. 



A November Day — A Laid-up Ferret — A Tramp 

 Home in the Wet — A Snug Evening — Things 

 Students should Know — Muzzling Ferrets — 

 Sucking Blood— A Strange Use for a Dog's Tail . 96 



CHAPTER VII. 



Rabbit Catching — Tools for Rabbit Catching — An 

 Easy Day's Rabbiting — Ferreting a Bank — A Deep 

 Dig in the Sand — A Day with the Purse Nets — 

 Necessity of Silence — Ferrets without Muzzles — 

 How to Kill Rabbits 113 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Trip to the Seaside — Surveying the Hunting Ground — 

 A View from the Chffs — A Sea View — The Rector's 

 Daughter — Doctoring the Burrows — Running out 

 Nets — " Hie in, Good Dogs " . . . .130 



