BOXING DAY RABBIT SHOOT

[micky 3,325]

This  Picture came up to-day it's from Boxing Day  1903  and it's a scene that could of been most villages all  the Country ,I went on three that I can remember twice Beating and working the ferrets and once as a Gun .The last Drive /Walk of the day  was a place called Boys Hill and all us local lads got to have a go , the Field was  mainly down to Bracken and Gorse and the idea was to walk in a line up and over then Ferret an open ditch at the bottom , we all had to pick a numbered ball out of a bag for our position in the line and I got the best which was next to the Hedge as we were about to start off my Granddad gave me his Double Barreled  4,10  and said  you can have some Cartridges when I think you can be Trusted ,   that was punishment  Shooting one of his b*****d Pheasants the Week before