xxiv. GROUND GAME SHOOTING (PART /) 391 



showing rabbits, and, though the description of how 

 to do this appeared in my First Series of Letters, it 

 is so applicable here that I reproduce it. 



Fig. 77 on the following page explains how to force 

 rabbits to sit above ground without the use of ferrets, 

 or fuse, by merely surrounding their burrows inde- 

 pendently with a 3 ft. 6 in. wire netting supported by 

 upright sticks. This plan is very effective w T hen the 

 rabbits live among thick bushes or the roots of large 

 trees, and where it is difficult to dislodge them. 



Against the wire, inside the circle, lean boards 

 as shown in fig. 77 (the front of a pheasant coop is 

 just the thing), and cover the upper surface of the 

 boards with sods, to give them a natural appearance. 



After a short imprisonment the rabbits become 

 hungry, and freely run up the ladders to escape 

 from their wire fortress, and then pop over one by 

 one into their feeding grounds outside it. 



Once outside the wire and there they have to stay, 

 for they cannot return to their burrows again. 



The wire should be sunk in the soil 6 in., or else 

 bent outwards for 6 in. along the ground and pegged 

 down, so as to hinder the animals from digging 

 underneath it to regain their burrows. 



