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hares and these remarks apply in similar proportion to 

 rabbits are stopped merely through having one or both 

 hind-legs broken. Sometimes they are sent away badly 

 wounded simply because the bungler has aimed too low. 

 Very few moments' reflection should serve to convince 

 as to the cause of this ; then, of course, with the cause 

 discovered the remedy is not far to seek. Two causes 

 combine to make the going-away hare difficult to kill 



THE BROWN HARE. 



outright: i. the comparative invulnerability of the 

 animal so presented, for from this point of view the back 

 of the head is about the only part on which the shot 

 can tell with immediately fatal results ; 2. because the 

 thoughtless or careless shooter cannot, or will not, divest 

 himself of the fallacious notion that it is necessary to 

 have full view of the hare at the moment of pulling the 

 trigger. Momentary reflection should convince that if 

 the animal aimed at is moving straight away from the 

 shooter, aim must be taken over it in order that it may 



