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into a hamper, and be will not suffer injury of any 

 kind ; lug him out of a burrow by his hind legs (the 

 usual custom with keepers) and chuck him into a 

 hamper, or perhaps a sack, and he will not have any 

 * go ' in him for a week at least. 



HOW TO KEEP RABBITS ABOVE GROUND FOR THE GUN 

 BY MEANS OF A NET 



You can occasionally manage to show enough 

 rabbits to diversify or increase a day's game shooting 

 in a very simple way, and without interfering with 

 their burrows or disturbing the coverts. This is by 

 first encouraging the rabbits to increase in some 

 small wood that has rough grass or other shelter 

 adjacent to it, and then by surrounding it with cord 

 netting the night before you intend to shoot, or, if it 

 is too large for this, by running the net along the 

 side or end of the wood from which the rabbits 

 usually steal out to feed. 



The object is to set the net so as to prevent 

 the rabbits that are feeding on the grass or crops 

 outside the wood from returning to their burrows 

 inside it. When rabbits are shut out of their 

 burrows in this way of a night they will seek the 

 nearest shelter they can find and squat therein for 

 the m-xt day ; and as the shooters approach the 

 right spot their host may casually remark : ' If you 



