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very well when the object is merely to kill off some 

 of many rabbits ; but the gun in good hands will 

 account for a hundred rabbits in a day in woods in 

 which the best men might ferret all day for a couple. 

 Burrows may appear used, but rabbits soon get too 

 artful to lie in them. When it has been proved 

 that there are no rabbits in a wood, above or below 

 ground, every yard of hedgerow and field should be 

 searched. It is astonishing, when the rabbits of a 

 wood have been thoroughly persecuted, how far out 

 in the fields they will go, and in what curious places 

 they will hide themselves. The inside of a farm- 

 roller is a very likely place for a rabbit to sit ; once 

 I found one under the name-plate of an iron harrow 

 in the middle of a large bare field. Another time 

 when we were cleaning up the rabbits, I was crossing 

 a field of rough grass, when up jumped a rabbit, 

 and I bowled it over. Just as I was picking it up, 

 up jumped another, and I served it the same. 

 When I was picking up the second, up jumped a 

 third, and I got it too. Well, naturally, I thought 

 there must be several more, so I set to work and 

 did every inch of that thirty-acre field without 

 finding another rabbit. I appreciate a fast rabbit 

 running across me at about fifty yards as much as 

 any shot. A most murderous shot at rabbits was 

 brought off by a farmer ; watching his opportunity 

 towards the finish of a field of corn, he blazed down 

 a furrow, and killed nine. 



