250 Wild Life in a Southern County. 
these holes, which will cause an awkward fall if 
nothing worse. Some of the older holes, now almost 
deserted, are, too, so hidden by nettles and coarse 
grass as to be equally dangerous. 
The hereditary attachment of wild animals for 
certain places is very noticeable at the warren. 
Though annually ferreted, shot at six months out of 
the twelve, and trapped—though weasels and foxes 
prey on the inhabitants—still they cling to the spot. 
They may be decimated by the end of January, 
but by September the burrows are as full as ever. 
Weasels and stoats of course come frequently, bent on 
murder, but often meet their own doom through over- 
greediness; for some one generally comes along 
with a gun once during the day, and if there be any 
“commotion among the rabbits, waits till the weasel 
or stoat appears at the mouth of a hole, and sends 
a charge of shot at him. These animals get caught, 
too, in the gins, and altogether would do better to 
stay in the hedgerows, 
The grass of this great pasture has a different 
appearance to that in the meadows which are mown 
for hay. It is closer and less uniformly green, 
because of the innumerable dead fibres. There are 
places which look almost white from the bennets 
which the cattle leave standing to die after the seeds 
have fallen, and shrink as their sap dries up. Some- 
what earlier in the summer, bright yellow strips and 
patches, like squares of praying-carpet thrown down 
