160 Forty Years Beagling 



he was above the ground, it is very possible they 

 would not have found him, but it so happened that 

 I was sitting on the fence quite near and had been 

 a witness of the whole maneuvre. I am not quite 

 sure it was quite fair in me, and, moreover, I am 

 not sure this rabbit had any right to go climbing 

 fences — it not being considered a part of the game 

 — but be that as it may, I didn't do a thing but go 

 there and make him get down, and in a very few 

 minutes he was fairly killed." 



