AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



him the secret, but I don't mind telling it now. 

 You take a pound or more of parsley seed, 

 and sow in the night-time all over the field. 

 Let no one know anything about it, but take 

 the seed in your large pockets, and scatter it 

 broadcast all over the field ; the hares will then 

 feed in that field in preference to any other. I 

 have done the same thing on land sown with 

 clover, near the cover, that is, home fields, not 

 those a long way from your woods. This is one 

 dodge to make the hares feed at home, and 

 take to that particular field for feeding. The 

 hares will keep the parsley down, and, even if 

 the farmer does find a sprig of parsley in the 

 clover, he will think that it slipped in amongst 

 the clover seed. 



Another great secret in getting hares is to 

 keep down the bucks, who, in the months of 

 March and April, run and hunt the does to 

 death. Kill off the bucks, they do to give 

 away as presents to anyone, as a reward for 

 services rendered in saving pheasant's or par- 

 tridge's eggs for you. I have frequently seen 

 five or six bucks chasing one doe hare until she 



