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to this old fellow, but on being questioned, he said he only passed 
the warren to go down on the rocks to get his rod and catch 
grey mullet ; but, acting on the advice of one of the workmen 
in the garden, my friend kept a look-out, and at last saw the 
lame old rascal, when in the warren, look round first to see if he 
was observed, and sit down above the most frequented burrow. 
He then took from his pocket a couple of the small green crabs 
so common on the seashore and put tliem into the hole, and 
they at once ran down ; soon after, up bolted a fine rabbit, and 
our infirm friend knocked it over at once with his broomstick 
and hid it in a furze-bush. He then repeated the trick, and 
soon killed five fine rabbits." 
Mr. Matthias Dunn increases the efficacy of the above pre- 
scription thus : — " Allow me to say the crab, to do the v/ork as 
he ought, when put in the rabbit-hole, must have a lighted end 
of candle stuck fast to his back, with a little clay or grease to 
hold it firm, and a formidable creature, thus armed, is he ; for 
neither fox, badger, nor rabbit can withstand his fiery torch. 
This, then, is the impromptu ferret used in this neighbourhood, 
and the business is said to be a failure without the candle. 
Hence I expect the old man had the same machinery at work 
to get the rabbit." 
Eemarkable Hybkid. — I have heard the following story of 
the great Duke of Wellington being completely sold by a show- 
man. A man had advertised an exhibition of a hybrid creature 
between a tench and a rabbit. When the Duke w^ent to ex- 
amine it, the exhibitor told him he was very sorry he could 
not show the specimen itself, as it had gone to Court to be 
shown to the King ; but, if it was any satisfaction, he would 
show him both the father and the mother stuffed and in glass- 
cases. Mr. Bartlett tells me that more than once a hybrid 
between a cat and a rabbit has been brought to him. He says 
a cat with a short tail will not prove the argument ; he wants 
a rabbit with a long tail. 
WooLMEE Forest, p. 22. — Large lakes such as those men- 
tioned by AVhite often contain one large pike, who is king of the 
pond. A good example of this is the huge pike that I obtained 
through the kindness of his Eoyal Highness Prince Christian, 
and which I have described as follows : — His Eoyal Highness 
Prince Christian was so very kind as to send me, in October 
1874, in charge of Mr. Keene, head fisherman in Windsor Park, 
the most splendid pike I ever beheld. Having understood that 
Kapley Lake, near Bagshot Park, which belongs to the royal 
