CH. VII.] An Easy Day. 117 



lurcher that he keeps, which is as good as 

 gold, and as clever as a lawyer, and despe- 

 rately fond of a day with me and my dogs. 



I have three male ferrets, real monsters, 

 strong enough to trot down a burrow and 

 drag five or six yards of line after them with 

 ease. 



Having described all the tools, etc , neces- 

 sary for work, I will now jot down, as an 

 exercise for you students, a nice easy day's 

 rabbiting that actually took place a few 

 weeks ago — a sort of day that quite a young 

 beginner might work with success. There 

 had been a sharp rime frost in the night, 

 which still hung about in shady spots at 

 eight o'clock in the morning, as Jack and 

 I marched off with my dogs and ferrets, 

 accompanied by old Fly, the lurcher. By nine 

 a.m. we began working field hedge-rows 

 and banks, where rabbits were pretty plenti- 

 ful and had been established for years in 



