PREFACE. 



H E kindness with which my first little 

 manual for the assistance of brother 

 sportsmen, " Rabbits for Profit and 

 Rabbits for Powder/' was received, and 

 appreciated by them, has emboldened me to attempt 

 another appeal to their suffrages. 



To game preservers and masters generally I would 

 say : Go occasionally yourself and see, throughout 

 the breeding season, that the hints comprised in the 

 following pages are being carried out with accuracy 

 by your servants ; more especially do I urge you in 

 the course of each rearing season to " quit your 

 downies " twice or thrice very early, after the young 

 birds are hatched and placed in their coops in the 

 fields, and see for yourselves that they are turned 

 out on fine days at 5 A.M. or thereabouts an over 

 sleepy or idle keeper being frequently the cause of 

 incalculable mischief at this epoch. 



And to the keepers I would add : Follow the 

 instructions you will find in this little book, and you 



