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COWS, or it was likely to diminish the sport of 

 rabbit shooting, with which he occasionally 

 treated his cockney friends. As rabbits are 

 very destructive to young trees, where they 

 are numerous, regular warreners ought to be 

 employed to keep them down : the skill of 

 these men is extraordinary ; for instance, 

 when a ferret is put into a burrow, the 

 warrener places his ear on the ground, and 

 keeps quietly shifting his position until 

 from the noise which is conveyed by the 

 earth, he finds he is exactly over the ferret 

 and rabbit : he then digs them out, having 

 not unfrequently to proceed to a depth of 

 four or five feet. 



The place under consideration is the 

 best possible for the display of skill, oak 

 being the weed of the soil ; the picturesque 

 doctors have had full liberty to exhibit their 

 plans, but they have signally failed in their 

 efforts : and all attempts to act in defiance 

 of the general laws of nature will ever prove 

 abortive. It is nothing else than playing at 



