CHAPTER XIII. 



DISCURSIVE AND ACADEMIC. 



WHEN it is necessary to turn the rabbits 

 out of the earths on the day before a 

 shooting party, I generally go to work as follows. 

 Take half a pint each of spirits of tar, paraffin oil, 

 spirits of turpentine, and gas-tar ; mix well 

 together in a bottle. Stop up five holes out 

 of seven, and drop the mixture down the two 

 other holes ; this will answer quite as well as 

 if you had put some of the mixture down all 

 the holes, and will answer the purpose of 

 bringing fifty couple more rabbits up for the 

 guns. 



