48 EEVELATIONS OF A EAT-CATCHEE. 



perhaps, 500 spectators. This has often 

 occurred with me. This, I can assure my 

 readers, is what I call "roughing it." 



Of course, what I have just related occurred 

 a few years ago, but when the Muzzling Order 

 came into force, the authorities practically 

 stopped Eat coursing, for they w T ould not let 

 a dog run at a Eat unless the dog was muzzled. 

 This was about the worst thing that the 

 authorities could do for Manchester and district, 

 for at that time I was supplying for coursings 

 about 100 Eats per week, and at the same 

 time sending 50 Eats a week into Yorkshire, 

 and all the Eats I supplied were caught within 

 15 miles of Manchester. This in my opinion, 

 speaks very bad of the Muzzling Order, which 

 I think is nothing but a farce, for at the very 

 time I was going ratting, dogs were muzzled 

 in some parts of the country but not in others. 

 My opinion of dog muzzling is, muzzle all or 

 Inuzzle none. 



You will see by what I have said respecting 

 these coursings, &c., that the Eat-catcher has 

 plenty of work to supply so many live rats, 

 and he has also to mix with company high 

 and low. He also sometimes experiences 

 difficulties in travelling on the railway. I 

 have often entered an empty third-class 

 carriage, sent my dog under the seat, and 



