376 SPORTING ADVENTURES 



and had their traps and nets been more perfect they could have 

 probably doubled the number. 1 have shot twenty in a day on 

 the sage plains of Idaho, without walking two miles ; and I 

 could have shot many more if I wished to. Hares, or rabbits 

 as they are called, are in fact so abundant that they are 

 nuisances in some places, so that the sportsman need have 

 no compunctions of conscience about killing them. 



