CONCERNING GAME AND THINGS. IQQ 



dropped dead from exhaustion. I have seen 

 them run a doe hare when she was seeking for 

 a place to lay down her young. You ask, is it 

 possible ? I answer that it is, most undoubted- 

 ly. I have seen a buck hare not only kill the 

 doe, but literally cut her back to pieces as she 

 lay dead, with, perhaps,* two or three young 

 ones inside of her. Thus the buck hares do 

 you an immense amount of harm and injure 

 your stock for next season. 



Another great secret is to keep the vermin 

 down. Now I suppose gamekeepers will say, 

 " We know that, Wilkins, tell us something 

 we don't know." To which I reply that there 

 are many of you who know it, but won't take 

 the trouble to do it, and consequently the 

 vermin destroy one-half of your leverets, and 

 they never come to the gun ; so you only keep 

 your hares to breed young ones for the vermin 

 to feed on. 



"Well," say you. "Anyhow the leverets 

 are useful to feed the young cubs on." True,, 

 oh king ! I grant you that, and also admit that 

 whilst the vixen is taking a leveret to her cubs 



