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the filiclics seek the hidden grub, and thus the moles 

 industriously work beneath the perishing corn, 

 already fading in its blades from the briglit green 

 hue of spring to the sear and yellow tint, and 

 really devour in thousands the wire-AVorm already 

 devastating the crop. 



Before any one ventures on an opinion concern- 

 ing the habits of anytliing in Heaven's creation, 

 however humble its little life, he should first 

 gather correct information, not only for his own 

 guidance, but for the guidance of other people. A 

 lie in ijrintj to speak plainly, gathers, from the type 

 and colour it assumes, a shade of truth, like many 

 a weak and erroneous falsehood when founded on 

 the merest circumstance, and these mistakes are 

 often the most difficult of all to set right. 



Thus, in the very erroneous, inicharitable cry 

 that the Communists and Eed Eepublicans, and 

 blatant men who have no just means of rising into 

 ])ublic notice, have made against the Game Laws, 

 we therein find them charging the lesser lives with 

 mischief they do not do, and with devouring corn 

 at seasons of the year when Nature gives them no 

 appetite for it. If a hare or rabbit's ears apjoear 

 from among the green and growing crops, the 



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