Gxarxn GAME SHOOTING (PART /) 387 



escape before the holes of which the burrow consists are 

 all closed. 



Leave, however, in an extensive burrow, a couple of 

 holes on its downwind side loosely stopped with earth, 

 and do not apply spirits of tar or fuse to these, as they 

 should be left as bolt holes, for if they have no chance 

 of exit save by scratching out through holes stopped 

 with spirits of tar, some of the rabbits will remain 

 underground even at the risk of suffocation ! 



There should invariably be one free exit allowed, 

 whether the burrows are large or small, and this exit 

 should, as described, be lightly stopped with earth 

 only, merely to show the following day if the animals 

 emerged the night previous as required. 



1 TUESDAY 



' By this morning about two-thirds of the rabbits 

 that belong to the burrows you attacked on Monday 

 will (if there is shelter for them to hide in) be sitting 

 above ground. The men should now walk carefully 

 round every burrow they worked the previous day ; 

 tin -y will at once see where the rabbits have scratched 

 out during, the past night to escape the fumes of the 

 fuse (as well as to visit their feeding places), which will 

 usually be from the holes that were left loosely stopped, 

 and which have no paper over them. 



' It will also be easy to see where any rabbits, after 

 bolting, have dug home again, by the small heap of 



soil excavated with their feet in doing so. 





