CHAPTER IV. 



THE SLAUGHTER OF VERMIN. 



FLYING vermin are the greatest pests of 

 a keeper's life, breeding, according to 

 nature's laws, at the same time as pheasants 

 and partridges, and roaming afar in search of 

 food for their young. They are indigenous, or 

 — to speak more correctly — native to the soil, 

 whilst pheasants have to be imported, and 

 gradually localized ; therefore, during the 

 breeding season and rearing season, a keeper 

 has to be continually on the alert, in 

 the daytime, against the attacks of flying 

 vermin. 



