CONCERNING TRAPPING, SNARING, ETC. 41 



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, 



