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The smell of the blackthorn would draw the hare to the spot, and he would move round and round nibbling the twigs until caught. Caleb never tried this plan, but was convinced that Gathergood was right about it. He told me of another shepherd who was clever at taking hares in another way, and who was often chaffed by his acquaintances on account of the extraordinary length of his shepherd's crook.
General remarks on poaching Farmer, shepherd, and dog A sheep-dog that would not hunt Taking a partridge from a hawk Old Gaarge and Young Gaarge Partridge-poaching The shepherd robbed of his rabbits Wisdom of Shepherd Gathergood Hare-trapping on the down Hare-taking with a crook
Every morning, the keeper said, the swedes were found back on top of the ground, and he had no doubt that they were taken up by the old fox again and left there for her cubs to play with. Caleb was not so eager after rabbits as Shepherd Gathergood, but he disliked the fox for another reason.
Hendon, beginning passenger flights on the same date, went in for exhibition and passenger flying, and on June 21st the aerial Derby was won by Captain Gathergood on an Airco 4R machine with a Napier 450 horse-power 'Lion' engine; incidentally the speed of 129.3 miles per hour was officially recognised as constituting the world's record for speed within a closed circuit.
That convinced him that he had been taught a valuable lesson and that old Gathergood was a very wise man about rabbits; and he was very happy to think that he had got the better of his two sneaking enemies. But Shepherd Gathergood was just as wise about hares, and, as in the other case, he took them out on the down in the most open places.
Caleb related that his friend Shepherd Gathergood was a great fox-killer and, as with hares, he took them in a way of his own.
On the following day he was with his flock on the down and found himself near another shepherd, also with his sheep, one he knew very well, a quiet but knowing old man named Joseph Gathergood. He was known to be a skilful rabbit-catcher, and Caleb thought he would go over to him and tell him about how he was being tricked by the two Gaarges and ask him what to do in the matter.
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