As I said, up in the red pine plantation when I was very young and just beginning, I used snares made out of picture-hanging wire. That came quite easy to me, and the dying came quite easy to the cottontails, with no blood, and the harder they pulled the tighter the snare cinched. The hardest part for me was uncinching the wire from the neck of the rabbit, but maybe my father would just snip it, or we’d leave it on during the butchering and discard it with the carcass. There’s a whole chapter about all of this in Watership...

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