ON DESTROYING VERMIN. 



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assiduous frequenter of the habitations of man, 

 I cannot have a doubt but that it was the same 

 bird which King David saw on the house-top 

 before him, and to which he listened as it poured 

 forth its sweet and plaintive song. Moved by 

 its melody, and comparing its lonely habits with 

 his own, he exclaimed in the fulness of an 

 afflicted heart, " Vigilavi, et factus sum sicut 

 passer solitarius in tecto." " I have watched, 

 and am become as a thrush, all alone upon the 

 house-top." 



ON DESTROYING VERMIN IN SMALL GAR- 

 DENS, AND ON RELATIVE MATTERS. 



In reply to a letter from Mr. Loudon. 



You say, " you will send to a gardener in the 

 country for a weasel." You must send for 

 two, male and female. A bachelor weasel, or 

 a spinster weasel, would not tarry four and 

 twenty hours in your garden. Either of them 



