86 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



he arrived at about half-past five in the evening. 

 I told him what had occurred, when he said: 



" I saw Dabber, with Harry Wright, round 

 Odd's Wood and Old Beech Wood Lane, but 

 could not get hold of them ; but you'll be 

 sure to nab Dabber at these snares, in the 

 morning, and, if not, we can have him for 

 trespassing in the plantation with a gun, and 

 for setting snares." 



Now, on my way to the plantation, I picked 

 up a dead hare in the swedes, near Granlet's 

 plantation ; it had been killed quite long 

 enough, and was just beginning to ' turn/ for 

 the rooks had plucked out one eye, the lights 

 and heart, so I hid her in the plantation for the 

 ferrets. When I reached home with father, it 

 struck me that I might make use of her in 

 another way, so I borrowed a needle and 

 thread from mother, and sewed up the places 

 where the rooks had been picking ; then I 

 started her only eye hard out of her head, and 

 smeared it round with blood to make it look 

 blood-shot. I took old Sarah, thus prepared, 

 and laid her, best side upwards, blind side 



