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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. 
