Recreations in Shooting: With Some Account of the Game of the British Islands
Recreations in Shooting: With Some Account of the Game of the British Islands
John William Carleton
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The neutral colours of her fur much more assist her ambush than any apparent care of her own. Many diseases, to which hares are subjected, are known. They become drop- sical with too succulent food. Their fore-teeth occa- sionally grow out when kept in places where they HAKE SHOOTING. 127 have no wood to gnaw. In the same manner, we find that bears, and other savage animals, are subject to the protrusion of horny parts ; such as the inordi- nate growth of their claw r s, as well as their teeth ...or fangs. To secure hare warrens from the enemies such as stoats, weasels, ferrets, polecats, badgers, foxes, &c. Of these defenceless animals, they should be walled round. Mr. Beckford's (the sporting writer's, not the anti-sporting preserver's) directions for a hare warren are these : A wood of nearly thirty acres, cut into many w r alks, set with traps, and sown with parsley, which will induce the hare to keep at home. A small warren should have but one walk in it : and no dog be permitted to enter it.
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