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rally made by driving posts, made from the 

 branches of the lopped trees, into the ground 

 in a double row, and filling up the intervals 

 with brushwood and smaller branches ; but 

 in a large fence a weak point is soon found, 

 or made, and the deer easily leap over the 

 breach that pigs have commenced. 



The trail that they leave on alighting in 

 the field, gives the first hint of where they 

 may be expected the next night, and before 

 dark several strong sharp-pointed stakes are 

 firmly fixed into the earth, with the points 

 directed in such a position as to receive the 

 deer on them at the conclusion of their jump. 

 Down comes a small herd of deer, say three 

 or four ; the stag and hind, with one or two 

 fawns, for it is just the season for young 

 maize, and, unlike most deer, these pair and 

 keep together ; they take the leap they took 

 the night before in safety, and one or two 

 are literally impaled alive. A man is some- 

 times keeping watch at some distance ; he 

 runs up, finishes the ones that are taken, and 

 if they prove to be the old ones, his dogs 

 soon kill the young ones ; the spikes are 

 then replaced, and are ready for another in- 

 vasion. 



These ways of destroying animals may 



