CHAPTER IX. 



POACHERS' DOGS, AND HOW TO KILL THEM. 



A GREAT dodge in poaching used to be 

 gate netting. A hare on the prowl, 

 started off a field when feeding, generally 

 makes for the gate-run that is to say, leaves 

 the field by means of the gate and, for this 

 reason, one of the oldest methods of poaching 

 is gate snaring or netting. 



To prevent this you should tar the lowest 

 rail of the gate, so that when the hare goes 

 underneath it she smears her back ; she will 

 then avoid the gate for the future, and find 

 some other way in and out of the field, for 



