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estuary formed of the confluence of two 

 rivers. The robbers were too cunning, 

 however, perceived him from invisibility, 

 and never came near. 



Muggy had a job at the time trapping 

 rabbits for the bailiff of a gentleman's 

 farm. He was paid by results, being given 

 so much a head for perfect rabbits; and 

 rabbits did not pass as perfect to the 

 dealer at the market town when half their 

 heads had been battered as though by the 

 blows of some mighty instrument. The 

 curious thing was that he did not know 

 for a long while what caused the damage. 

 He thought of a fox, but a fox would not 

 have mauled rabbits like that; he would 

 have carried them away. The idea of a 

 badger being the aggressor came to him, 

 but he could find no spoor of a badger's 

 pad, which, once seen, is never forgotten. 

 And still the mysterious depredations went 

 on. Farmer Smith of Crowberry, later on 

 in the year, lost seven chicks one morning, 



