CHAPTER II 



RABBITS, PARTRIDGES, AND PIGEONS 



Covert shooting, where beaters only are used for 

 moving the game and driving it to the guns, will be 

 treated of by Mr. Portman. Here we will deal with 

 the covert shooting where dogs are used, and the 

 game consists chiefly of rabbits. This sport may 

 be divided into two branches — shooting the cop- 

 pices, the underwood of which is from one year's 

 growth to, say, four or five years, and also the 

 high wood ; shooting the commons and thickets. 



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