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vermin bill. Another keeper, who is a great friend of mine, 

 once caught a favourite cat belonging to me in a trap. He 

 attached a label to its collar, bearing this suitable inscrip- 

 tion : " Keeper Dick caught me last night," and then turned 

 the cat loose. Much amusement was occasioned at Lass- 

 ington Rectory next morning when poor Tib arrived with 

 one foot swelled up, and the label round his neck. 



