410 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



same, the wires being cut in two as if with a 

 sharp knife. One day, as I was hunting the 

 gorse by this stubble field, I shot an old buck 

 rabbit which had no less than nine snares 

 round it's neck, or rather, portions of nine 

 snares. As soon as he was caught this rabbit 

 had cut the snares in two with his teeth, and 

 on comparing the ends round his neck with 

 the ends left in the stubble, I found that they 

 exactly corresponded. So I discovered how it 

 was that the rabbits were lost out of my 

 snares, in the corn field adjoining White's 

 Wood. 



