Sporting scene e personaggi del paese . ervice nella distruzione del gioco. Nel giorno di frodo, un umido pomeriggio di una domenica mattina,o un mercato-giorno sono selezionati,- quando gli agricoltori areneither a casa né nei campi. Insidie e netsare quindi impostato in ogni direzione nel cuore di thepreserves. Un cane lurcher, adeguatamente addestrato per il pur-pongono, che abbaia mai, è poi colato fuori da un movimento della mano per risvegliare il gioco, che viene ben presto catturato andstowed lontano in sacchi in qualche luogo segreto fino a quando thedarkness di notte prevale, quando esso è cautamente fetchedaway. Se il bracconiere essere rilevato in the cove

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Sporting scenes and country characters . ervice in the destruction of game. In day poaching, a wet afternoon, a Sunday morning, or a market-day, are selected, — when the farmers areneither at home nor in the fields. Snares and netsare then set in every direction in the very heart of thepreserves. A lurcher dog, properly trained for the pur-pose, that never barks, is then cast off by a motion ofthe hand to rouse the game, which is soon caught andstowed away in sacks in some secret place, until thedarkness of night prevails, when it is cautiously fetchedaway. If the poacher be detected in the cover, hemotions his dog to leave the spot, which instantly obeys;he has nothing on him; he is not armed; and has athousand excuses to make, — that he has lost his way, —is seeking for some stray cattle, —and is probably suf-fered to depart; not always, however, without a search; TRICKS OF KEEPERS AND POACHERS. 317 for, even under the simple garb of the shepherd, the jpoacher endeavours to conceal his real character, and |his booty. i. Occasionally, a gang of night poachers divide them-selves into two parties; one of which will proceed tothe outside of woods near a high road, and there com-mence firing their guns or pistols, in order to draw 318 TRICKS OF KEEPERS AND POACHERS. the attention of the watchers to that point, whilst theother is effecting as much destruction as possible inanother part of the preserves. When the former per-ceive the advance of their opponents, in the directionwhere they first commenced firing, they immediatelyretreat, for the purpose of drawing them away fromthe best preserves, and afterwards make their escape, either by the turnpike road or into another liberty;thus leaving their companions to pursue their system ofdestruction in perfect safety, or to make good theirretreat. All share equally in the plunder. In securing a booty of pheasants, a moonlight nightis fixed upon. Air-guns are often used, some of whichwill kill at the distance of thirty yar

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