WASTE LANDS AND WASTE WATERS. 1G3 



for doing tliis being no more than tlie gift to 

 tlieni of tlie paunclies of the rabbits killed. The 

 rabbit, according to liis size, is as useful as the 

 sheep, and, size considered, can be bought at a 

 much cheaper rate than the farmer or butcher 

 demands for mutton. 



Well, then, let the proprietors of these so-called 

 ^Svaste or useless lands" grow on them food for 

 the people.* The turning waste lands into rabbit 

 warrens is not expensive, for a mere bank, properly 

 constructed^ will keep the rabbits within the re- 

 quired bounds. Rabbits will live and get fat 

 where nothing else could similarly exist ; and 

 here then I suggest a means of adding to the waist 

 or ^^ waist-belt" of that knocked-about baby, the 

 " Constitution." 



The late political Gamps, the v^^orst nurses that 

 ever pretended to watch over and guard a ^^Con- 

 stitution," — the Constitution, that blessed babe of 

 three fathers, the offspring of a ^' Co.," — have 

 destroyed many of the well-aired churches which 



* If any one doubts the immense quantity of food afforded to 

 the labouring classes in the shape of rabbits, in town and country, 

 let him satisfy himself by calling at the poulterers' shops in his 

 vicinity, and thus ascertain the number of rabbits that each shop 

 annually sells. 



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