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der. A cat will travel miles. Cats, bred 

 wild in the woods, are most destructive ani- 

 mals to game. 



Rats, which live in the fields, will destroy 

 game : I have known a whole brood of 

 young geese destroyed by rats ; and a wa- 

 terman up the river assured me, that the 

 rats destroyed five young swans, just hatch- 

 ed in the nest, by boring a hole, at the bot- 

 tom, into the nest. 



Carrion-crows are very destructive to 

 game : you may kill them, by taking a leg 

 of horse-flesh, scoring it with a knife, and 

 rubbing arsenic into the flesh. It must 

 then be fastened on the top of a corn-rick, 

 which stands in the open fields, and not 

 near to any house. Kites and magpies will 

 also feed on the horse-flesh. 



It is well known, that foxes destroy much 

 game; not when the game is grown up, 

 and can fly, but by catching hen-pheasants 

 and partridges when they sit on their eggs. 

 If you doubt this, dig out a litter of young 

 foxes, and you will find, in the hole, the 

 legs of many pheasants, . partridges, and 

 voung hares. I v/ould net, on any ac- 



