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(where these can be spared) form an agreeable 

 change in their diet ! 



No water is required, unless cubs are very 

 young, as they seldom or ever touch it, though 

 in exceptionally hot weather I generally put 

 some down, whenever I felt thirsty myself ! as I 

 could not bear to think of them being likewise 

 without any means of relief. 



The best plan to pursue when turning down 

 cubs is to select some rabbit burrow, sufficiently 

 large for them to get into, close to a fox earth 

 or other large burrow, in a secluded part of the 

 covert where they are unlikely to be disturbed, 

 and this should be surrounded with fifty yards 

 of wire-netting, some six feet high, the lower 

 part two-inch mesh, and turned in at the bottom 

 for about a foot, the turned-in part being buried 

 six or eight inches in the ground and well 

 pegged down to prevent the cubs scraping out 

 underneath, which they will endeavour to do the 

 first night or two, and then ramble away and 

 become lost. The cubs should be put into 

 the earth in the middle of the day, and some 

 food placed close to the mouth of the hole for 

 them to eat as soon as they venture out, as 

 after eating they are less likely to try and 



