NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



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inside elephant's tusks, completely grown over with ivory. If we 

 drop a shot into the cavity of the tooth of a boiled rabbit, and 

 imagine the tooth put back again into the rabbit's jaw to grow, 

 it will give some idea how bullets are sometimes imbedded in 

 solid ivory without any apparent hole by means of which they 

 have obtained an entry. 



The engraving represents a specimen of a remarkable abnor- 

 mal growth from the hollow part of the tusk of an elephant. 

 I found nothing in the cavity, but it is, however, evident that 

 nature was attempting to cover up a foreign body which probably 



NODULK OF IVORY. 



was a bullet. The specimen was presented to me by Messrs. 

 Brooks & Co., of Cumberland Market, who cut up great quantities 

 of ivory in their business. 



Mr. Lambton Young gives me the following new plan for 

 bolting rabbits from their holes. He writes : 



" I have met with a novel way of ferreting for rabbits 

 in Jersey. On the estate of my friend is a rabbit-warren, but 

 lately the rabbits were found to be diminishing in numbers very 

 rapidly. A watch was set, but there were no guns heard, or 

 suspicious persons observed to go on the ground ; the only fre- 

 quenter of the place was an old lame fisherman, who walked 

 with a broomstick to aid his steps. At last suspicion attached 



