Poachers on the moor differ in many habits and tricks from
South-country poachers. They know how to trap grouse with gins, setting
up little piles of gravel, which the birds eagerly seek for digestive
reasons, and besetting the gravel with traps. They know how to trap
grouse in winter without causing them injury; this they do by pressing
a bottle into hard snow, thus shaping a hole-trap (to be baited with
oats) from which the grouse cannot escape, having fallen into it head
first. But on the whole the sneaking type of poacher has fewer chances
on the moor than in the pheasant coverts.
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