RABBIT. 



nothing of going over, arid returning to their dinner 

 with ten or twelve couple, although with every dis- 

 advantage in point of guns and ammunition. 



These birds are so scarce in Great Britain, that to 

 find a good bevy of them, and kill three or four 

 brace, is considered as something extraordinary : and, 

 although there is scarcely a sportsman, who has not 

 occasionally met with a few, while shooting par- 

 tridges in September, yet I have never known any 

 one, who has had much sport with quails in this 

 country. 



RABBIT. Lepus cuniculus Le lap'm. 



To shoot rabbits in the evening, sit in a tree ; 

 and, by your being above them, they are not likely 

 to smell you, and will therefore play about close 

 under the tree. Let your dead ones lie till you have 

 done shooting, instead of spoiling your own sport by 

 getting down for them. For this work you must 

 take no dog. 



To kill rabbits, feeding in an open warren, keep a 

 few hurdles pitched, and approach or wait for the 

 rabbits under cover of them ; taking care not to go 

 directly to windward. For a regular attack, how- 

 ever, the better diversion is to ferret the holes, and 

 stand about twenty yards off, very quiet, with your 

 gun. This is more amusement for a man who is 

 fond of shooting, than netting the rabbits ; and the 

 shots are not so difficult in this way, because a rabbit, 

 when bolted by a ferret, does not, in general, go off 



