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CHAPTER VII. 



Rat-catching and rabbit-catching are two 

 distinct professions, but the greater part of 

 the stock-in-trade that serves for one will 

 answer for the other, and it is as well for the 

 professional to be master of what I think I 

 may call both branches of his business. A 

 rat-catcher who did nothing but kill rats and 

 refused a day's work with the rabbits would 

 be like a medical man who would cut off 

 limbs but would not give a pill, or a captain 

 of a sailing-vessel who would not go to sea 

 in a steamer ; besides in these days it is the 

 fashion to jumble up half a dozen businesses 

 under one head and name. Just look at 

 what the engineer does. Why, he is nowhere 

 if he is not (besides being ready, as the 



