Identifier: allroundsportwit00dyke (find matches)
Title: All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Dykes, T
Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Fores, Piccadilly, W.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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heres goin tobe snaw, ye ken. Theyre queer things, rabbits ; sometimestheyll come quicker than you can load and fire, and sometimesthey will not bolt at all. I suppose that depends a good deal on the ferrets, Donald,was the remark of my companion. Not so much as you think. I have as good working ferretsas is to be found in the country, and even open-mouthed, letalone muzzled, I have seen them beat at times. If a fox hasbeen hanging about all nicht nothing will make them leave thehole, and Ive bolted a fox with a muzzled ferret too; the foxescant stand a ferrets smell, and the rabbits are the same way, Ithink. However, here we are at one of our best burrows, andwed better put on the muzzles. Opening the box he carried himself, he seized a large brownand yellow dog ferret, as heavy as a hare, and sitting down onhis box commenced to force open his mouth with the point ofa lead-pencil. Having muzzled many a one for him in my day,I laid down my gun, took hold of the proffered wax-end, made
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<M ■.\\^^/ All V- ni^^f A Days Rabbit SJiooti7ig. 137 a grannies knot in the middle of it, slipped it over the under-jaw, brought it over the top of the other, and, knotting it,carried it up between his ears, where, fastening it again^ Icarried it round his neck and made him secure. He did not, ofcourse, seem to like it, but after rubbing his nose against thebottom of the box, contented himself, and resolved to bear withthe nuisance. Two others we muzzled the same way, and acouple of young ones and an old dam, small, but keen and active,we let go free, the latters teeth being so short that she could notpossibly have held a rabbit supposing she tried. The ferrets having been got to rights, we moved over to theburrow, a round hillock, which was full of holes, some long andred, with newly-scraped sand, and some round and cosy-lookingat the foot of brent bushes. We then took our positions. The brown dog ferret was dropped into a hole on the far side,another in a hole a few yards off,

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