380 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



You see one rabbit conie lumbering up, 

 heavy with young ; don't shoot it. Then you 

 see another who has laid down young, you 

 can easily tell this because she has cleft half 

 the fluck off her sides in order to make her 

 young ones a warm nest ; don't shoot her. 

 Then comes another, rusty-brown in colour, 

 thin, not in young, and with no fluck off his 

 sides. You can plainly see that this is a buck, 

 for he is all of one size from head to foot ; 

 shoot him, and let him lay there until you 

 come down from the tree. The other rabbits 

 will not be frightened away by the report of 

 your gun, they will merely skulk down for a 

 minute or two, so that you can shoot five or 

 six times from the tree, and kill five or six 

 bucks. 



When your man comes up, let him pick up 

 the rabbits you have shot, but you keep to 

 your tree. Then instruct him to go outside 

 the wood to the other side, and walk up to 

 you as before ; you shift your position so as 

 to face in the opposite direction, and so kill 

 another half-dozen bucks. I can pick eleven 



