1 88 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



yards of cord, and got my under-keeper to 

 stand near with a sack of live rabbits, while I 

 remained at the peg with my gun and dog. 



"Now, George," says I, "Take a rabbit, but 

 don't let the dog see you, stick it, and turn it 

 down in front of him." 



Away goes the rabbit, I ups with my gun 

 and fires (half a charge of blank powder), away 

 goes Sailor, hot after the rabbit, but at the end 

 of the eighteen yards he falls heavily. I pull 

 him back to the peg, and make him lay down 

 quietly until I have loaded my gun again, which 

 I do not hurry over doing. When it is loaded, 

 I loosed him from the collar and sent him to 

 look for the rabbit and bring it back to me. 

 This done, I put him to the peg again and 

 repeat the experiment with another stuck 

 rabbit. Bang ! bang ! and off goes Sailor 

 more furiously than before ; this time he is 

 thrown back more heavily, nearly cracking his 

 neck. I tried him once more, and then, as he 

 still bolted after the rabbit, I left off for that 

 day and saved the rest of the rabbits. I tried 

 him again next, day, whilst he had the lesson 



