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set, extend forty or fifty yards, according to the 

 ground and other circumstances. If there are 

 no bushes growing in the intervals between the 

 nets, they cut some, and insert them into the 

 ground : the manner of setting the nets is the 

 same as before described for catching large ani- 

 mals ; but for hares, they are generally laid in 

 hollow places leading to thick covers to which 

 they generally run when disturbed, being found in 

 the greatest number in covers near cultivation. 



One person is left concealed near the nets to 

 watch them ; the other two go off to the distance of 

 about a quarter of a mile, and commence beating 

 the underwood with sticks, making as much noise 

 as possible by striking on the large leaves, and as 

 soon as a hare is seen or heard to start from his 

 form in the bushes, the person near it makes a 

 shrill noise, which is well understood and an- 

 swered in the same manner by the other at a con- 

 siderable distance; they then run towards the 

 nets, approaching nearer to each other as they 

 proceed, continuing the noise with their voices 

 and sticks. It is wonderful to see how they drive 

 the hares to the exact spot where the nets are set, 

 being surrounded on every side by cover. After 

 they have beaten one side of the nets, they beat the 



