The rabbits did, indeed, just hop out and hop in again; but it is a most clumsy expedient, because the fire must be lit on the windward side, and the rabbits will only come out to leeward.

The smoke hangs, and does not penetrate into half the tunnels; or else it blows through quickly, when you must stop half the holes with a spade.

It is a wretched substitute for a ferret.
When cock-fighting was common the bellicose inclinations of the cock-pheasants were sometimes excited to their destruction.

A gamecock was first armed with the sharp spur made from the best razors, and then put down near where a pheasant-cock had been observed to crow.

The pheasant cock is so thoroughly game that he will not allow any rival crowing in his locality, and the two quickly met in battle.