CONCERNING TRAPPING, SNARING, ETC. 4 1 



snares?" ** Nothing," I repeated. "Ah"! 

 Master Jack, you are not going to get over 

 me like that, I can tell you." He rolled out 

 of bed. "I'll go and see for myself after I 

 have had a bit of breakfast." So he did, and 

 saw that there had not been a rabbit caught 

 that night. He could not fathom this, at all ; 

 Jack had got the better of him in a draw of 

 "blank." 



Then he tried the oily feather, and this 

 answered with me, " I say, my boy, do you 

 think the rabbits would cross the wheat field 

 stubble and get caught in your snares if we 

 took out the dogs to hunt the gorse on Bishop's 

 Hill?" The snares were set in the stubble, 

 between two gorse fields, so I answered : — 

 " Perhaps they might." But this I said, more 

 because I wanted the fun of shooting, than 

 anything else, for I knew that the rabbits would 

 not go down to my snares. Why ? Because they 

 knew that the snares were there, for I had told 

 them so, as I will explain later on ; they had come 

 down in the night, scented the snares, and gone 

 away again, back to Bishop's Hill. Therefore, 



