GROUND GAME SHOOTING (PART /) 385 



* MONDAY 



* Commence work at daybreak with three men (a 

 second set of three if necessary). 



. 1 will carry a lighted lantern, and, in a game 

 km or basket, several hundred pieces of fuse all cut 

 ready into 6-in. lengths.* 



' No. 2 will shoulder a spade. 



' Xo. 3 will be in charge of a pint or so of 

 spirits of tar in a wide-mouthed pickle bottle. 

 (You can buy this at any wholesale druggist's.) 

 He will also have several hundred pieces of 

 newspaper, each about 4 in. square, all pre- 

 viously torn to size and strung on a piece of 

 wire, like bills in an office ; and as many 

 small 6-in. twigs this shape (cut beforehand), with 

 which to pin his bits of paper to the ground (fig. 76). 



' The order of procedure when bolting the rabbits 

 is this : 



* This fuse is capital stuff for bolting rabbits, and is used by 

 miners and quarrymen to ignite charges of blasting powder ; it is 

 cheap, and can be purchased from an ironmonger. Its trade name is 

 4 No. 8 patent sump fuse for use in wet ground. Its cost is Q^d. per 

 coil of twenty-four feet. Makers, Bickford & Co., St. Helen's Junction, 

 Lancashire. If you cannot procure miner's fuse, use instead wisps of 

 coarse paper dipped in ordinary gas tar (carried with you in a pail), and 

 then lighted in the holes. This is a much slower method than the 

 employment of fuse, and though it will on an emergency answer the 

 purpose, it has the disadvantage of polluting the inside of the burrows 

 for so long a period that the rabbits, when permitted to return home, 

 will often desert their burrows. Fuse, on the other hand, leaves no 

 smell once it is consumed and the fumes it created have escaped, as 

 they will. 



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