CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Page 



The Ferret Family — Crossed with the Polecat — 



Choosing Ferrets — Hutches — Feeding Ferrets — 



"BartheTail"— Handling Ferrets ... 8 



CHAPTER II. 



Bag versus Box — Ferrets Fighting — The Ratting Spade 

 — Ratting Tools — Hints to Schoolmasters — Learn- 

 ing Dog-Language — With a Scold in the Voice — 

 Dogs' Kennel — Treating Dogs Kindly — Dogs in 

 their Proper Place ...... 23 



CHAPTER in. 



Aristocratic versus Plutocratic — Come-by-Chance — 

 Chance's Friend — Nondescript Tinker — Grindum 

 — How I got Grindum — Grindum's Friends — Jack 

 and his Sister — "Jack Took Me" — End of an 

 Ugly Story — Grindum's First Rat — Pepper and 

 Wasp ..,,,«,. 42 



