THE RABBIT 



fire. Only a foot separated the two as they lay dead. 

 A similar thing happened at Beverley in September, 

 1 890, except that the order was reversed. The shooter 

 fired at a hare and killed it, when immediately a rabbit 

 was seen to leap up a few j'ards further and tumble 

 over dead. 



Two instances of an unseen rabbit being killed 

 when a grouse was shot at, occurred at Strathardle in 

 the autumn of 1890 — one on August 20, when the 

 grouse was killed, and on being picked up a rabbit 

 was found kicking close by ; the other on Septem- 

 ber 22, when the grouse was missed and a rabbit 

 came rolling down the brae. In December, 1888, Mr. 

 Alfred ^Vare, while rabbit-shooting on his father's 

 warren on Dartmoor, fired at a rabbit crossing a bog. 

 On going to pick it up, he found he had also killed a 

 jack-snipe. On examination the snipe was found to 

 be lying just where the bulk of the charge had struck 

 the ground. Probably other instances of the kind will 

 occur to our readers as having happened within their 

 own knowledge. 



One of the most curious episodes in rabbit-shooting 

 which has fallen within the experience of the writer, 

 occurred some years ago in Sussex, during a day's 

 rabbiting with beagles. Wa were shooting a ' hanger ' 

 under the hill, into which the beagles had driven a lot 



