GROUND GAME SHOOTING (PART III} 425 



You cannot expect to find hares in the woods 

 whilst the leaves are falling nor even if driven 

 therein will they remain there ; nothing makes hares 

 so restless as the rustle of falling leaves or the flutter 

 of the undergrowth in the wind. Nor will you ever 

 have many hares where rahbits ahound ; a hare pro- 

 bably regards a rabbit as a fidgety neighbour, that 

 is always giving him a start, or by his bustling move- 

 ments a suggestion of danger. Besides this, there is 

 no doubt rabbits fight and chase hares away from the 

 neighbourhood of their burrows ; and I have reliable 

 evidence of old buck rabbits killing leverets. 



