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, and, as you pass them, hitch the top line of 

 your net into the slits cut ready on their tops. I have 

 seen 500 rabbits killed in a couple of hours in a few 

 lurLTi.- fields of aftergrass that bordered a wood, as a 

 result of the side of the wood next the fields (in which 

 the rabbits fed) being shut off the night previous 

 with a long net so as to prevent their return home 

 to the burrows it contained. 



HOW TO SHOOT RABBITS 



To kill rabbits in really good style with the gun 

 is an accomplishment few possess, for even men 

 who are quick shots at winged game are some- 

 times slow at rabbits that are dodging about amid 

 bramble?, or darting across paths cut in furze or 

 bracken. 



Take, for instance, a couple of shooters trudging 

 side by side down a covert or a field of roots ; the 

 one will kill half a dozen rabbits, whilst his neighbour, 

 perhaps an equally good marksman, -when he fires, 

 may not even see any chance of a shot. 



Babbits running in the open are, of course, as 



marks as can be desired ; but to stop rabbits 



with regularity and neatness in covert, or as they 



dash across narrow openings in the undergrowth, 



requires a quick eye and hand and a steady nerve. 



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