SPORTSMEN, FARMERS, &C. 103 



shoot till the fifteenth of September ; for I 

 am certain that more birds are destroyed 

 in the first fifteen days, than in the whole 

 season besides. 



It is absurd to permit any farmer to set 

 rabbit-traps to destroy them. If it be ne- 

 cessary to destroy them, dig all the earths 

 in, excepting one large main spout. After 

 dark, when the rabbits are out feeding, go 

 quietly to the spout, and stuff a piece of an 

 old sack or carpet into the spout, about 

 three feet within it ; then go drive them 

 with a dog, and you will catch six or seven 

 in every main spout. Thus, by digging 

 them in, you will soon destroy them. 



A rabbit-trap will catch a hare ; and no J^J^^^^^p'^^^f^r 

 man shall tell me, that, when a man Soy^Haretr' 



Pheasant?, and 



observes a hare-rack, he will not set Partridges. 

 the trap in it. Besides, partridges and 

 pheasants are constantly caught, running 

 along these paths, in the traps. Look only 

 to the warreners, what a number of hares 

 they destroy in their rabbit-traps ! 



You cannot have any plenty of hares, AWarrenon 



•^ ^ *^ your Manor 



provided there be a warren close to your Game.''^''^ ^^ 



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