This wood is of large extent; but even to the smaller plantations of the Downs it is wonderful what a number come in the course of a year.

Besides the shed just visited, there would be certain to be another more or less ornamented near the keeper's cottage, and probably others scattered about, where the commoner vermin could be nailed without the trouble of carrying them far away.

Only the owls and hawks, magpies, and such more striking evidences of slaughter were collected here, and almost daily renewed.
To get into the wood was much easier than to get out, on account of the thick hedge, palings, and high sharp-sparred gates; but I found a dry ditch where it was possible to creep under the bushes into a meadow where was a footpath..