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WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



I was once severely bitten by one when a boy, 

 and was greatly afraid I should die from hydro- 

 phobia in consequence, until I discovered by 

 diligent inquiry that it was an accident which occa- 

 sionally fell to the lot of gamekeepers and poachers. 



RABBITS AT PLAY. 



I also learned something of a still rarer accident 

 which sometimes befalls an unlucky Ferret. If one 

 be turned into a burrow, and finding a Rabbit fails 

 to bolt it, a second is generally sent along to help 

 him. Instead, however, of exerting their combined 

 efforts to accomplish this, they probably, through 

 jealousy, fall upon each other and one of them is 

 generally dug out dead. 



