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CHASSE DU LAPIN. 331 



convient aux personnes qui ne veulent employer 

 ni furets ni armes a feu : on tend des poches a 

 une extremite d"'un terrier, et a Tautre on glisse 

 une ecrevisse ; cet animal arrive peu-a-peu au 

 fond de la retraite du lapin, le pique s'y attache 

 avec tant de force, que le quadrupede est oblige 

 de fuir, emportant avec lui son ennemi, et vient 

 se faire prendre dans le filet qu'on lui a tendu 

 a Touverture du terrier. Cette chasse demande 

 beaucoup de patience : les operations de F ecre- 

 visse sont lentes, mais aussi elles sont quelquefois 

 plus sures que celles du furet." 



This gentleman's singular method of hunting 

 rabbits with a lobster^ reminds me of a method 

 harlequin * has of killing hares, not less inge- 

 nious, with Spanish snufF. Brighella tells him, 

 that the hares eat up all his master's green 

 wheat, and that he knows not how to kill them. 

 " Nothing more easy," replies harlequin : " I 

 will engage to kill them all with two-penny- 

 worth of snuff. They come in the night, you 

 say, to feed on the green wheat : strew a little 

 snuff over the field before they come ; it will 

 set them all a sneezing ; nobody will be by to 

 say, God bless you ! — and of course they will 

 all die." 



* The harlequin of the Italian theatre, whose tongue is 

 at liberty as well as his heels. 



