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watching for titbits, which they preferred to 

 anything we put on their plates. Epicurism was 

 Silverheels's one great fault; no matter how 

 many titbits and how much raw liver we gave 

 him, he caught a bird for a dainty meal every 

 day. He knew he was doing wrong; for after I 

 had thrown my cap at him a few times he no 

 longer brought the birds home, but ate them in 

 the field. So it served him right to be caught in 

 the crow trap. 



Cats and dogs sometimes do a good deal of 

 harm in the garden by rolling on borders or 

 tearing them up. The editor of Black's Gar- 

 dening Dictionary indicates two ways of 

 dealing with them. One of them is to leave 

 tempting pieces of meat, with cayenne pepper 

 concealed in them, lying about; the other, to 

 sink bottles in the border and put a little strong 

 ammonia into them. Mice he would exterminate 

 with traps; rats with some poison that is harm- 

 less to other animals; and moles by following 

 the main run to the **earth" and digging them 

 out. Poisoned worms, he thinks, are not much 

 good. 



