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in a motor, sprinkle generously with Suffragette 

 literature, and throw a hammer and a few eggs 

 at him. Print the result in the next morning's 

 newspapers, and serve in an emasculated form 

 at breakfast in every respectable household 

 throughout the Kingdom. 



No. 5. — A Battue. 



Take a number of small woods or coverts, 

 well supplied with game. Extract all weasels, 

 stoats, sparrow-hawks, and jays, and remove 

 owls, magpies, squirrels, and other harmless 

 animals traditionally regarded by gamekeepers 

 as vermin. Insert several thousand tame 

 pheasants, and preserve carefully for some 

 months. Sprinkle daily with maize and Indian 

 corn until a few hundred wild pheasants from 

 neighbouring estates begin to appear. 



Collect about iSve- and- twenty Farm Labour- 

 ers, Reformed Poachers, and Unemployed 

 Persons; furnish with stout sticks, dress 

 in red-collared smocks until they resemble 

 beaters, and flavour the whole mixture with 1 

 Village Idiot and 2 Oldest Inhabitants. Add 

 two or three Gamekeepers in velveteens and 

 bowler-hats, and attach 1 Retriever to each 

 Gamekeeper. Place a few local Urchins at 

 the corner of every Covert, with orders to 



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