GROUND GAME SHOOTING (PART /) 389 



The day after shooting it is advisable to send a 

 man with a spade to open the holes in the burrows 

 here and there, and to gather up and take away all 

 the pieces of paper, or the surviving rabbits may 

 desert their old homes and cause injury to the land 

 by burrowing elsewhere. 



"When about to bolt rabbits, commence operations 

 on the burrows that are farthest upwind, and work 

 systematically downwind, so that, as you move along, 

 the wind may always blow in a direction that will 

 waft the fumes of sulphur given out by the fuse 

 through the burrows. When you have worked down- 

 wind as far as you can go, start again from a point 

 upwind. 



Should you be engaged in a covert containing 

 pheasants, 'never take the burrows in it straight 

 through from end to end of the wood, or you may 

 drive the birds into the fields; take half the wood first, 

 drive the birds back into the portion you have finished, 

 and then complete the burrows in the remaining half. 



When your rabbits are sitting out waiting to be 

 shot, be cautious not to disturb them from the seats 

 they have chosen, or you may send them a long dis- 

 tance in search of safer quarters, or even induce them 

 to at once make new earths. Chain up all dogs ; a 



