180 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



If you live in a meadow or park, you should 

 stick a rabbit as I have described, turn it down 

 at once, fire off your gun, and then run into 

 the house and call the dog, " Here, Help, 

 come on, good dog." Take him out and put 

 him on the scent of the blood, standing quite 

 still yourself, and letting him do the work and 

 bring the rabbit back to you without any 

 assistance. If he is so far trained as to be 

 sure of " finding," take him through the wood 

 and kill a wild rabbit ; let him find it out and 

 bring it to you, then put it in your pocket, and 

 go on. As you go along, take the rabbit out 

 of your pocket, and drop it on the ground; 

 walk on for twenty or thirty yards and then 

 send him back for it. After a time go from 

 forty to a hundred yards after dropping the 

 rabbit, then from a hundred to two hundred and 

 so on up to a quarter-of-a-mile, making him go 

 back and fetch it as before. 



When you kill a rabbit in a wood, hang it up 

 on a stub within his reach, if you are going 

 home walk from it about two hundred yards 

 and then send him back for it. Increase the 



