Hints On Shooting And Fishing: &c., Both On Sea And Land, And in the ...
Hints On Shooting And Fishing: &c., Both On Sea And Land, And in the ...
Christopher Idle
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A very asisiduous and attentive keeper, who had had the charge of extensive moors fdr many consecutive years, and who was constantly on his ground, told me he had invariably observed this result,— notwithstanding his having been as suc- cessful as any man I ever met with, during a long experience, in the destruction of vermin of all sorts. This circumstance is partly explained by the fact, that hawks, coming from any contiguous ground, will return to spots day after day, where they have once be...en successful in taking game; so that a keeper, however much he may be on the alert, may lose several young birds before he may get a favourable opportunity of destroying the enemy. The keeper to whom I have above Digitized by VjOOQ IC TO^^ OF LEASE FOB SHOOTINGS. 187 alluded, T have known remain on his ground aU night, in order that he might be in concealment at daybreak, when a falcon or hen harrier was in question. His house being at a distance, and a sea-water loch intervening, made him prefer the occasional adoption of this plan to going home and returning in the morning; but it was, of course, during the short nights of the summer months.
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