Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Том 35Baily Bros., 1880 |
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Страница 80 - As for fuch hares as are bred in warrens, the warreners have a crafty device to fatten them, which has been found by experience to be effectual ; and that is, by putting wax into their ears to make them deaf, and then turning them into the place where they are to feed, where, being freed from the fear of hounds, and for want of hearing, they grow fat before others of their kind.
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