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four legs, gags them with a thong of raw-hide, and the 

 dive ferce are dragged out like butcher-calves. 



Practical naturalists are generally the most successful 



DECOY OWLS. 



trappers, for Lord Bacon is probably right, that observa- 

 tion is quite as prolific a mother of inventions as necessity. 



