HABITS OF BATS. 



door was closed) and beneath the bottom step 

 we caught two Bats. On lifting the flag at 

 the bottom of the steps, we found 15 whole 

 eggs, some good and some bad, all of which 

 I am quite satisfied the Eats had carried down 

 those nine stone steps ! How they had done 

 so I cannot explain, but content myself with 

 stating only the plain facts of my own personal 

 observation. 



Eats are also very cunning in the water, 

 say a pit or a river. Now, a Eat can exist in 

 water for at most about seven minutes, and 

 you will find when a dog is swimming after a 

 Eat that the Eat is watching the dog all the 

 time, for as soon as the dog gets within a yard 

 of the Eat the latter will dive under water and 

 come to the surface again about 15 yards 

 away. When the dog has tired the Eat out 

 with swimming, you will very often see the 

 Eat dive again and come up very quietly and 

 just put its nose out of the water, or rest its 

 head on a floating leaf. It is so cunning that 

 it will remain still there, and if the leaf or reed 

 gives way it will come up at the water side 

 and just thrust out its nose to breathe. By 

 this means the dog loses full scent of the Eat. 



I have also noticed how useful are the 

 Eat's front paws and tail. I have seen a Eat 

 on the top of a swill tub at a pigsty when the 



