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one for his man, with sixty rounds of ball- 

 cartridges to each, — they fired each of 

 them about twenty rounds at the very spots 

 where they heard the guns go off, he hol- 

 lowing out each time, after he had fired : 

 " For God's sake take care of my spring- 

 guns/' Those gentlemen night-sportsmen 

 never came into his wood again. 



Partridges may very easily be preserved 

 from poachers taking them at night with 

 nets. It is a custom, generally speaking, 

 Avhen gentlemen take pains to preserve 

 their game, to lay thorn bushes in the 

 stubbles. I hold this custom to be of very 

 little utility ; for the two men who carry 

 the net, only halt a moment, when a third, 

 who follows the net, lifts it up, over ^ the 

 thorn bush, and then they "draw on ; and 

 they can always seethe bush, unless the night 

 be intensely dark ; and even then, if careful, 

 they can instantly feel that the net touches, 

 when they have but to halt and let the man 

 How ro pre- behind free it. There is a much better 



vent Par- 



Sai^'atlilht method ; which is, to stick stakes, about as 

 by drag-nets, j^-^^ ^^ ^^^^^^, thumb, thrcc fcct six inches 



long, with one end well fastened, into the 



