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MAMMALIA. 



They are exposed to a host of maladies ; and those that reach the 

 market have a very inferior flavour to "Warren Babbits. Their 

 flesh being insipid and unwholesome, it is lightly esteemed by the 

 gens de gout. 



At the commencement of the seventeenth century, Olivier de 



Hg. 213.— Tame Babbits. 



Serres published directions for rearing Rabbits. But what he 

 had more particularly in view was the reproduction of the semi- 

 savage, semi-domesticated animal, enclosed in a warren several 

 acres in extent. Of course such conveniences are not in the 

 power of all ; so the most general mode is depriving the Rabbit 



