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haptep 9 



RABBIT POACHING. 



F well trained lurchers are absolutely 

 necessary to hare poaching, ferrets are 

 just as important to successful rabbit 

 poaching. Nearly nothing in fur can be done 

 without them. However lucky the moucher 

 may be among pheasants, partridge, or grouse, 

 rabbits are and must be the chief product of 

 his nights. Of the methods of obtaining 

 them field netting, well-traps, shooting all 

 are as nothing compared with silent ferreting. 



In the north we have two well-defined 

 varieties of ferret one a brown colour and 



