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twists the line round the top of stakes 

 previously placed in the ground about fifty 

 yards apart, taking care as he goes that the 

 bottom of the net lies for a few inches on 

 the ground. In this way squares of gorse of 

 about two hundred yards can be entirely 

 enclosed, and every rabbit inside them 

 surrounded like sheep inside a fold. 



Our breakfast over, we were soon out 

 again with all our dogs (except old Chance, 

 who had been left at home on account of her 

 age, and also on account of her trick of 

 always liking to go up to the carrier's each 

 night to sleep), and we had also two real 

 good lurchers. At the foot of the Denes we 

 met the boys from the Rectory, with a 

 friend about their own age, and the curate 

 of the next parish with a business-like ash 

 stick under his arm ; and among them they 

 had mustered a pack of ten terriers, some of 

 which wanted to begin work by a fight with 



