268 WOLDS. 20, 



Some idea of the produce of the Wold- war- 

 rens may be gathered from the great num- 

 bers which are frequently flaughtered at once. 

 Five or fix hundred couple have not unfre- 

 quently been flaughtered in one night : and, 

 it is faid, that when the two Drilfield war- 

 rens lay together, there was once an inft.ance 

 of fifteen hundred couple being killed atone 

 Daughter. 



6. MARKETS FOR RABBITS. York, Hull, 

 and the neighbouring tovtfns, for carcafes : 

 Stanford-bridge and Malton, for (kins -, which 

 are cut by furriers who refide at thqfe places., 

 and who find a market for their wool in the 

 hat-manufactories of London and Manchefter. 



Sometimes the fkins and carcafes are fold 

 together, to huckfters, or other wholefale 

 dealers. The average price for the feafon 

 about two Shillings a couple. The price of 

 carcafes, in the neighbourhood of the war- 

 rens, eightpence to tenpence a couple. 



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