He had a lurcher with him, and I was afraid the dog would scent me in the hedge.' 'You rascal!' (from the defendant's wife).
'But he didn't, and, after looking carefully round, the defendant picked up the rabbit, and put it and the wire in his pocket.' 'What did you do then ?' 'I got out of the hedge and came towards him.

Directly he saw me he ran across the field; I whistled as loud as I could, and he' (jerking a thumb back towards the head keeper) 'came out of the firs into the lane and stopped him.

We found the wire and the rabbit in his pocket, and two more wires.

I produce the wires.' This was the sum of the evidence; the head keeper simply confirmed the latter part of it.

Oby replied that it was all false from beginning to end.