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at each other in horror, rushed wildly out to 

 locate the trouble, and were met by Rover, 

 the head of my four-footed police, and piloted 

 to the ducks' quarters, to find the terrier 

 visitor in the pen of the ducklings, to his great 

 amusement and their distraction. Needless 

 to say that was the end of his day's healthy 

 exercise; he was securely locked up until it 

 was time to go home. It took all the sooth- 

 ing I was capable of to quiet the ducklings. 

 They were off their feed for days, and it was 

 fully two weeks before they got back to weight. 

 With the old ducks there is the danger of 

 their rupturing an egg, which is sure to cause 

 trouble, perhaps death; or of breaking a 

 leg, which means killing. 



When they have to be handled to weigh 

 or kill, a small portable "yard," tjiree feet by 

 two and a half, made of laths and wire net- 

 ting, is used. It has a gate at one end, 

 which is placed at the gate of their inclosure, 

 and those wanted are driven slowly into it. 

 and it is then drawn quite away from the pen. 



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