HARRY WRIGHT CAUGHT IN A TRAP. 1 07 



girl was engaged to be married to Wright, and 

 was almost as artful as he ; she usually carried 

 some flowers in her hand, and sometimes she 

 would take a blackbird's nest with the eggs in 

 it, or even the young birds. Thus it was a 

 difficult thing to catch Harry, as he always 

 made the excuse, if you came upon him search- 

 ing for pheasant eggs among the briars, that he 

 was only gathering flowers for his sweetheart, 

 or else he was after a blackbird or thrush's nest, 

 or a bullfinch to cross with his canary. Harry 

 always did all the poaching himself, but some- 

 times the maid assisted him in looking for 

 pheasant's eggs, in this way. Getting into a 

 patch where a lot of flowers were growing, she 

 would walk about, and pick one here, and 

 another there, all the time keeping a sharp 

 look out for both pheasant and partridge nests. 

 She used to break a bough in the hedge, where 

 a nest was, and then Harry would go down, 

 guided by the broken bough, and take the eggs. 

 If you came upon her, of course she was only 

 looking for a bird's nest ; true, so far, but the 

 nest was a partridge's or pheasant's nest. 



