12 REVELATIONS OF A HAT -CAT CHER. 



their leisure, and then if you know the holes 

 round the floor wherefrom they come, go in 

 some night as quick as possible, turn up the 

 lights, run to the three or four holes, and block 

 them up with pieces of rag, &c. Now 7 as all 

 the Eats wdll not run out of the packing cases 

 or waste paper, but will hide amongst the same, 

 this is the time to take a good terrier dog or 

 two with you, and to have a bit of sport. Let 

 one dog hunt among the cases, &c., and hold 

 the other, for the Eats will soon make for the 

 holes, but the rags preventing their escape you 

 will catch and kill a great many by this means. 



It should be stated here that as Eats are 

 very cunning, it takes a lot of study, dodging, 

 and experience to be able to rid them entirely. 

 When you are feeding Eats anywhere, never 

 feed them with other than soft stuff, which you 

 can squeeze through your fingers, for if you 

 feed them with anything lumpy, they will carry 

 pieces into their holes and eat at their leisure. 

 FERRETING. 



Ferreting is a very good plan for destroying 

 Eats in cottage houses, stables, hotels, &c., as 

 it can be done in the day, but in buildings, say 

 five ro six storeys high you cannot ferret very 

 well as you cannot tell where to set your nets. 

 The only way to ferret a large building is to 

 ferret one floor at once, and always start at the 



