214 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER, 



Hang a little fluck on the twigs of the run, 

 to make believe that Pussy goes through it very 

 often, and serve all your artificial runs in the 

 same way. The poachers will set the best 

 runs, as they think them to be, but of course, 

 being false ones, they will not catch much in 

 them for a time, till the hares begin to find 

 them out and use them. Thus, you see, there 

 will be twenty-five runs in the hedge instead of 

 four or five, it will take twenty-five snares to 

 set this hedge, and so the hares have twenty- 

 five to five, or five to one chances on them. 

 By doing this, you will save many a hare from 

 being caught, and give the poachers a vast 

 amount of extra trouble, and if you carefully 

 " doctor " all the likely hedges in that way, 

 you will be doing good service both to the hares 

 and yourself. 



I have before mentioned the " Hares and 

 Rabbits Bill." Before the passing of this Act 

 there was many a bitter word between tenant 

 farmers and keepers, that is on the part of the 

 former, for keepers have to be civil all round. 

 Now I don't mean to state that hares and 



