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food which they like : then the two blind 

 doves are made to keep fluttering so that 

 the large drove can see them. The 

 man, being first secreted in some bushes, 

 draws the two doves down to the black 

 place where the two blind ones are ; in 

 consequence of which the whole of the 

 doves light on the part blackened. The 

 man then draws a net over them : and I 

 have been told that in this manner as many 

 as one hundred are taken at a time. 



As to hares, they have none. There is 

 a small rabbit, which is sometimes called a 

 hare ; it runs into the hollow trees or 

 stumps, and requires rather the axe than 

 the gun to take him. Squirrel-shooting is 

 a favourite diversion : these animals are 

 found in trees, and are sold in the markets 

 to eat, as hares and rabbits are in England. 

 There are many kinds of squirrels (the 

 ground, little grey, great grey, red, black, 

 fox, and flying squirrel) and foxes (the 

 flying fox, black, red, great grey, and little 

 grey fox). Opossums and racoons are ajn- 



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