150 FERRET FACTS AND FANCIES. 



as our own rabbits, who rarely ever dig a hole 

 of their own but use other animals holes or 

 hollows in trees. But in Belgium it is different. 

 They dig their own holes which are from three 

 feet to 100 yards long. All of the holes connect 

 together in the ground. Sometimes there are 

 only two holes and again there are as many as a 

 hundred holes, all of which are connected. A 

 den of one hundred holes probably would cover 

 an area of one-half acre and underground it 

 would be pretty well tunneled. 



We took our four pouches and spread them 

 over the holes and slipped the ferret in one of the 

 holes, but he was barely in when two rabbits shot 

 out of the same hole. The first one was caught 

 but the second one got away, as we had no chance 

 to reset the pouch after the first one was caught. 

 I set another pouch over the hole again while 

 pard took out the rabbit, which took but a few 

 seconds. Then the ferret came out. I set the 

 box down and he crawled into it, then we gath- 

 ered up our pouches and set off. 



We traveled about forty rods when we came 

 to a hedge where we found a den of six holes, all 

 in the side of the bank among the hedge, a very 

 difficult place to set the pouches. Finally we got 

 them set and placed the ferret in one of the holes. 

 We heard them making an awful fuss, then out 



