CHAPTER XII. 



FERRETS AND RABBITS. 



IF you see your ferrets with white noses and 

 lips you may know that they are in an 

 unhealthy state ; give them a teaspoonful of 

 sulphur in some bread and milk, or magnesia 

 in warmed bread and milk, x^lso change their | 

 food ; give them a dead cat to eat, nothing 

 will make them thrive more. Many ferrets 

 are made ill by eating dead meat, unfit for 

 their food, such as a dead fowl or rabbit that 

 has been shot at some time or other, and 

 picked up dead and decomposed in the wood, 



