The snare was of wire, so constructed that the hare entangled itself the more when trying to escape, and it was placed across the little roads through the fields to which hares confine themselves, with a heavy stone attached to it by a string.
Once Gavin caught a toad (fox) instead of a hare, and did not discover his mistake until it had him by the teeth.

He was not able to weave for two months.

The grouse-netting was more lucrative and more exciting, and women engaged in it with their husbands.

It is told of Gavin that he was on one occasion chased by a gamekeeper over moor and hill for twenty miles, and that by and by when the one sank down exhausted so did the other.

They would sit fifty yards apart, glaring at each other.