Netting of this description is a wholesale method of destruction, always supposing that the poachers are allowed their own time.
Gamekeepers who know their business prefer ferrets taken from poachers to any other.
In summer, poachers make and repair their nets for winter use.
One of the greatest night-helps to the gamekeeper in staying the depredations of poachers is the lapwing.
This specially applies to night time, and hence poachers invariably use white ferrets.
As compared with the doings of human "mouchers," there is a class of fieldpoachers whose depredations are tenfold more destructive.
One had better throw open his pond or river to all the poachers in the district than indulge in a taste for swans.
The poachers have not noted signs of wind and weather and of local migrations for twenty years past to be ignorant of this.
Of these parti-coloured ones a normal number is now kept up, and as poachers rarely discriminate, whenever they disappear, it is prima facie evidence that night work is going on.
Nature is prolific in her waste, and a whole army of nature's poachers have to be satisfied.
The capturing of a net stops the depredations of the poachers for a while, as these being large take long to make.
We know that the poachers have lately been busy knitting their nets, and have come to intercept them.
By imitating the peculiar gurgling call-notes of the grouse, old poachers can bring up all birds within hearing distance.
The poachers know this and are rarely met with game upon them.
It is well known to poachers that when once a hare has been netted there is no chance of its being taken again in like manner.
Never before, in his experience, had poachers raced for dear life to give themselves into custody.
Evidently the poachers had stopped to roll some logs (which were lying close by) over the carcass, probably meaning to appropriate it; and this gave the boys an advantage, of which they were in great need.
Now, you and I will play deputy-sheriffs, and have thosepoachers securely in the lock-up before night.
So we were; but that was before we turned poachers ourselves.
Well, I confess I have a little more sympathy with poachers, since we came so near beingpoachers ourselves.
Biceps," he said, with forced composure, "those poachers are tracking us.
Twas a beat along the Trusham covers, and a constable had gone ill, and the gamekeepers were yowling about the poachers as usual, instead of catching 'em.
Always a neat and tidy man--as poachers mostly are--I took the hayrake back to the field and wound up my lines.
That we should have so many poachers upon our muirs, sir," answered St. Ronan's.
Poachers come under a different law, and unless I have the office from headquarters to set out against 'em to the neglect of my beat, I can't do it.
The two poachers were undoubtedly partly under the influence of liquor; for the boys could see that they did not walk as straight as they should have done.
What was that the fire-warden was saying to you, Thad, about some sort of bad man up in this region, that gave the game wardens more trouble than all the rest of the poachers combined?
With just that brief chance to see what the threepoachers looked like, Thad was able to size them up along different lines.
The two poachers had evidently managed to map out some scheme by means of which they expected to overawe the lads, and secure everything they chanced to have about them, which was worth taking.
And Giraffe also experienced a decided thrill when he saw two men come half staggering into camp, who from their looks he knew must be Si Kedge and Ed Harkness, the rough and lawless game poachers and bullies of the pine woods.
He was quite confident that the village poachers had nothing to do with the business.
We can put aside the theory of poachers being disturbed at their work: and the theory of private enmity: and the theory of tramp or gipsy attacking him for the sake of robbery.
Besides, poachers on one estate would not bear malice against the squire of another estate fifteen miles distant.
Next morning, however, the two poachers ventured to the spot where they had heard the supernatural voices.
It may be they were game poachers after all, no matter if the coin is a bad one.
These camels spend great part of the year on ground of which I am either the owner or the tenant, and I do my best to protect them from the terrible poachers coming from Trebujena.
Some of the poachers and night-netters may be astir.
The reader may not be aware that many poachers become keepers.
It is needless to say that the harshness, or rather barbarity, of the punishment in store for them renders poachers but little inclined to yield themselves up when they find themselves confronted by gamekeepers.
It also accounts for much of the sympathy which is felt for poachers by all classes of the population except game preservers and their agents.
It was a common occurrence for justices to sentence poachers to longer terms of imprisonment than the law allowed.
Moreover, the punishment meted out to poachers in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis is much lighter, as a rule, than in the provinces.
Writing of poachers in bulk (so to speak) the author denounces them in unmeasured terms, but when he comes to speak of individual poachers whom he had known, his tone is altogether different.
There are exceptions to every rule, but it is the sincere belief of the present writer that, when they find themselves confronted by keepers, the vast majority of poachers would go away quietly if allowed.
Acting under orders, presumably, they content themselves with following poachers and identifying them if possible, for the purpose of summoning them afterwards.
It is probably not too much to say that hundreds of encounters between poachers and gamekeepers occur every winter in this country.
Very many of them are not so registered, and, therefore, their arrests, and attempted arrests, of poachers are illegal.
Of course, they are checked if they do, that the poachers may not be warned of the pursuit.
Here the hunt became most exciting, for the poachers were heard in the front crashing through the branches.
As the poachers had not been seen, their number was unknown, but it was supposed to be about six from the report of the guns.
We wondered that the poachers went to the trouble of pursuing the elk when they were not armed with rifles.
Suddenly we noticed threepoachers down in the forest!
The poachersand the dogs, who were so light that the ice crust could hold their weight, pursued him all the while.
When we sighted the poachers we wanted to find out where the game was, so we circled up and down, peering through the trees.
There are no poachers coming here; of that you may be certain.
He paused to let poachers and dogs come upon him, and was ready to fight them.
The poachers let loose the dogs, and they themselves skied after him at full speed.
There are plenty of fox trails in the forest, but the poachers are not looking for them.
Those poachersare probably out for fox,' he yawned.
We understood why thepoachers had been so persistent!
There he stood until the poachers emerged from the woods.
There are poachers in the forest, and they are bound for this very deer fold.
All the less able poachers are then sold by the ship to an American slave dealer, who sells them to a settler who lives a long way up a river.
Poachers make the best keepers, father, when they reform; and Pete has proved himself a good man and true.
The poachers looked repellent enough as they followed Humpy Dee's example, and scowled at the pair who had come up from the sick bay, and seemed to receive little sympathy from those who were looking on.
The next minute the man had disappeared among the trees, leaving Nic to stand staring after him, thinking of what would be the result if the salmon-poachers met their match.
There had been rumours lately of poachers being about.
I have scared all the other poachers with the comet; but the little thief never comes to church.
I hardly know whether you will or not,” the rector answered testily; “this is the time when those cursed poachers scarcely allow me a good night’s rest.
But another scene, and one to me of deeper interest, drove hares, pheasants, and poachers from memory altogether.
It struck him that perhaps the poachers had used the girl to coax information out of a young groom or keeper, and that she was now warning them.
I know they have,” I replied; “and that two poachers have been convicted.
Just then in burst a rabble rout of gamekeepers and river-watchers, who had come from the petty sessions, and were in high glee, the two poachers whom the landlord had mentioned having been convicted and heavily fined.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poachers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
