The Field

THE FIELD FROM THE ARCHIVES

THERE is always much waging of war against rabbits long after the season for killing game is finished. On many shootings nowadays there are not enough rabbits to be worth troubling about while game is in season and not enough, fortunately, from one point of view, to do any damage to speak of during the winter. This modern scarcity of rabbits allows the attention of guns, keepers and beaters to be concentrated with wholehearted concern on the securing of veteran birds.

Yet there come those gladsome bye-days at nothing else but

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