There they were nearly safe, for no trees give so much difficulty to the poacher.

It is not easy even to shoot anything inside a fir plantation at night: as for the noose, it is almost impossible to use it.

The lowest pheasant is taken first, and then the next above, like fowls perched on the rungs of a ladder; and, indeed, it is not unlikely that those who excel in this kind of work base their operations upon previous experiences in the hen roost.
The wood pigeons begin to come home, and the wood is filled with their hollow notes: now here, now yonder, for as one ceases another takes it up.

They cannot settle for some time: each as he arrives perches awhile, and then rises and tries a fresh place, so that there is a constant clattering.

The green woodpecker approaches at a rapid pace--now opening, now closing his wings, and seeming to throw himself forward rather than to fly.