The net being stretched, the pheasants were driven in.

A cur dog was sometimes sent round to disturb the birds.

Being a cur, he did not bark, for which reason a strain of cur is preferred to this day by the mouchers who keep dogs.

Now that the woods are regularly watched such a plan has become impracticable.

It might indeed be done once, but surely not twice where competent keepers were about.
Nets were also used for hares and rabbits, which were driven in by a dog; but, the scent of these animals being so good, it was necessary to work in such a manner that the wind might not blow from the net, meeting them as they approached it.