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Let lis, then, for once, take tlie wind out of 

 tlio sails of the stump and ckih orators, and, after 

 showing them that their cry is really to roh the 

 l^eople of the food— the wliolesome meat from 

 rabbits that they have the power of purchasing at 

 tlie poulterer's, and because they cannot buy 

 butcher's meat at the present prices, — let the 

 landed gentry turn all those wide wastes that the 

 demagogues have alluded to, as being ^^ sinfully 

 kept for private pleasure," netting ^' no food for 

 the people " of any kind, into rabbit-warrens. 



When it is known, as I will take care that it 

 shall be, how many, many millions on millions of 

 pounds of meat furnished by the rabbits to the 

 working classes, from those wastes so cultivated as 

 warrens, and assigned to the only crop that they 

 can grow, stump orators Avill have to drive another 

 trade. It will afford the means of bringing down 

 the high prices demanded by the farmer and the 

 butcher, prices to which the humblest labourer or 

 artificer cannot at present by the sweat of his 

 brow attain. If it is really desirable to cheaj^en 

 meat food, how is that good to be consummated by 

 lessening the supply by millions on millions of 

 pounds ? 



