It was but for a moment; the ferret came behind, and wild with hereditary fear, the rabbit leaped into the net.
The force of the spring not only drew the net together, but dragged out the peg, and rabbit and net inextricably entangled rolled down the bank to the bottom of the ditch.

I jumped into the ditch and seized the net; when there came a hoarse whisper: 'Look sharp you, measter: put up another net fust--_he_ can't get out; hould un under your arm, _or in your teeth_.' I looked up, and saw Little John's face peering over the mound.

He had thrust himself up under the bushes; his hat was off; his weather-beaten face bleeding from a briar, but he could not feel the scratch so anxious was he that nothing should escape.

I pulled another net from my pocket, and spread it roughly over the hole; then more slowly took the rabbit from the other net.
You should never hold a rabbit up till you have got fast hold of his hind legs; he will so twist and work himself as to get free from any other grasp.

But when held by the hind legs and lifted from the ground he can do nothing.