12 ONE WINTER'S NIGHT. 
the snow of the garden. Hares and other 
rabbits formed the larger shadows; water- 
rats, squirrels, and various field-mice the 
smaller. 
He passed in beneath the meshed-wire 
fence, which the owner of this garden always 
most thoughtfully left with about a foot of 
the lower portion raised. He sat on the 
cabbage-bed, and 
‘That ’s about enough, I think. Quick!’ 
He sprang like a flash at the hedge, as he 
heard the spoken words of some hidden man, 
and—dashed smack into the wire-netting. It 
had been dropped, as it could be by a single 
pull of the master wire from either end. 
And the rest? Oh, the rest was mere 
butchery—that’s all! 
