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licences and of the police, do not fail to 

 harry them on their own account, at all sea- 

 sons, close or open. 



Two of them are known to me by report : 

 Mirate and Flambard. They meet by ap- 

 pointment of a morning in the market-place, 

 exchange an inquisitive glance, inspect each 

 other with the three regulation turns, lift 

 a leg against the wall . . . and off they go ! 

 For the best part of the morning you can 

 hear them on the neighbouring hill-sides, 

 giving vent to short, sharp yelps, close on 

 the heels of a Rabbit who scampers from 

 thicket to thicket, with his little white scut 

 in the air. At last they return home : the re- 

 sult of the expedition may be read on their 

 bloody chaps: the Rabbit was eaten on the 

 spot, just as it was, skin and all. 



Does this really explain the substance on 

 which my Trox-beetles were living? It 

 seems to me that it does. Henceforth it 

 would appear an easy matter to rear them. 

 I install the insects in a large earthenware 

 pan with a bed of sand and a wire-gauze 

 cover. The provisions consist of Dog-drop- 

 pings, dried on the road-mender's stone- 

 heaps beside the highway. My menagerie 

 absolutely refuse to look at them. I have 

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