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WILD LIFE AT HOME. 



to a burrow round which young rabbits are play- 

 ing, and lying down put a finger to the lips, and 



by drawing the breath 

 sharply through them 

 reproduce a squeaking 

 kind of note resembling 

 the cry of one in distress. 

 As a rule, all the little 

 creatures go to earth in 

 a great hurry, and their 

 mother, advancing boldly 

 with her ears erect and 

 an angry look in her 

 eyes, kicks the ground 

 violently with her hind 

 feet. In this way I have 

 drawn them to within a 

 few yards of me, and 

 when they have even- 

 tually gone to seek safety 

 in their subterranean 

 homes, I have still heard 

 them thumping the 

 ground. 



By focussing some 

 well-used burrow about 



three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and carefully 

 hiding the camera and its operator, most interesting 

 studies of rabbits may be made We have some- 

 times dug a hole for our apparatus near a much 



