36 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



very first glance they might be taken for frogs on 

 the jump. That is all you will see of them. As 

 to looking after them, do not attempt it, for they 

 are gone where you will not be able to follow. 

 Young woodcocks we could always have had, if 

 ■we wished, but young snipes were never offered, 

 because they were not to be got at, alive and un- 

 injured. 



Furred and feathered youngsters have the instinct 

 of self-preservation largely developed; in young 

 snipes it is so to a remarkable degree. 



