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THE DEEJfl^ 
twitch-ups at the butts and threw 
them with their wire nooses far into 
the thickets, and posted a warning 
in a cleft stick on the sight of the 
last gibbet. Then 1 followed Wally 
to a second and third line of snares, 
which were treated in the same rough 
way, and watched him with curiously 
mingled feelings of detestation and 
amusement as he sneaked down the 
dense hillside with tread light as 
Leatherstocking, the old gun over his 
shoulder, his pockets bulging enor- 
mously, and a string of hanged rabbits 
swinging to and fro on his gun barrel, 
as if in death they had caught the 
dizzy motion and could not quit it 
while the woods they had loved and 
HUNTING 
