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was a cutting about all over the place with. eggs 

 in their mouths, and frightening my birds. 

 Master wool have it they do no harm, and I 

 can't get him out neither at the proper time to 

 believe his own eyes." 



If the little animal will take one kind of egg 

 there is no reason to doubt he will take another, 

 and, though I have never seen them with a 

 pheasant's egg, I must believe the assertion 

 of this keeper, who is a practical man. 



We all know there is nothing a rat is more 

 partial to than a hen's egg. Many times and 

 oft have I caught them in a nest with a gin. I 

 never could make out the way they carried off 

 the eggs, for I never found any shell, except 

 when I dug into their holes, and then I have 

 discovered some remnants. How they get these 

 heavy eggs from the nest, so high from the 

 ground, is a mystery to me, and I suppose ever 

 will remain so. As the song says 



"We don't know how they do it, but they do" 



About a month ago I was present at a rat 

 hunt. It was in a pig-sty about one hundred 

 yards from the house. There was a pig fatten- 



