174 WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



feet along the ground, and the still night air was 

 rent by the most piteous child-like skirling I ever 

 had the ill-fortune to hear. The noise was of short 

 duration, however, for the poacher with whom I 

 stood threw himself upon the Hare and net and 

 ended poor Pussy's squealing for ever. The dog 



HARE-NET ON GATE. 



never uttered a sound of any kind, and I only saw 

 it once as it peeped between the bars of the gate 

 through which the victim had come until we all 

 met behind an old barn in a lonely place half a 

 mile away. 



Hares will often take a net set in this way 

 in broad daylight if they are hard pressed by a 

 swift dog, and the accompanying pictures, taken 

 by special arrangement with the man in them, 

 illustrate how the trick is done. 



