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the animal, may bring away some of its hairs. The 
rope or rod as soon as it apparently touches the animal 
is withdrawn and, if hair on it indicates that it has really 
reached the game, is laid along the log from the hole, 
so as to measure the distance at which to chop an open- 
ing with an axe. Sometimes it will be found that the ani- 
mal has moved further on or has gone back toward the 
hole by which it entered. The first cut must then be 
stopped, measurements must be again taken, and a new 
cut made far enough to leave the animal between the two 
cuts. The opening may either be made behind the animal, 
which may then be taken out alive, or it may be made, 
of small size, near its head, so that it may be stabbed 
by a knife thrust through the hole. If the holes are far 
apart and the animal moves about, a small hole must be 
cut about half the length of the animal from the first hole, 
which latter must be covered with a moocroo leaf, or any 
other broad leaf, held tightly down with the hand, so as 
to exclude all light. Then, by poking the animal with a 
rod passed through the uncovered hole, it may be driven 
up to the covered hole where it will be felt at the leaf. 
It may then easily be killed with a knife. 
It is much more difficult to get a labba from out of a 
hole in the ground. If there is a 'back-door' the labba 
may be made to rush out through this by introducing a 
long rod through the passage by which it entered. The 
twigs and leaves on this rod should be bent back so that 
when the implement is pushed into the hole and pulled 
backward and forward it makes a noise, which scares 
the labba and causes it to rush from the other outlet. 
Young leaves of the kokerite palm (Maximiliana regia) 
make the best rods for this purpose. If the burrow 
