The rabbit Question. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 16

The rabbit Question. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — I see another letter signed "Frir Play" in the Witness of the 27th ult. He is still abusing me and singing the piaises ot the rabbit inspectors. It is impossible for rue to say bow many rabbits he thought he saw, I on:y know that rabbits wers not numeious oj the Conical Hills estate in Februaiy, 1900. This I can easily prove. Were I to assert that rabbits on "Fair Play's" farm are now a "moving mass, ' and that he is abusing me "nd praising the inspectors for the purpose of standing well with them, and so escaping pioaeeution, it wou'.d be nearer the truth than Ins statement about rabbits on my property. There is always a reason for everything, and I think I hrve hit the mark again. Ido not blame 'Fair Play." It saves a lot of trouble to stand well with the rabbit inspectors, and gives a lot of trouble to quarrel with them —I ana, etc., VTV T AT SON SHEN XA X ■P-S- — I had almost forgotten to give joi a quotation horn Burns, but here it i,. O, ye nha are sac quid voursel', Sac pious and sac holy , Ye\-e nought to do but "mark and toll Youi neighbours' faults and folly. Here me, auld Hnn^ie, for a wee, A-i' let poor damned bodies be, I'm suie sma' pleasure it cm gie, Even to a dcil. To pkelp an' scauld poor dogs like me, m An' hear us squeel I—W.1 — W. S.

TT HAPPENED IN A DRUG STORE. "One day last w.nter a lady tame to my drug store and asked for a biand of cough medicine that I did not have in stock," says Mr C. R. Grandin, the popular druggist of Oi.Lino, N.Y. "She v,a3 disappointed, and wanted to know what cough preparation I cluM recommend. I said to her that I could freely recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and that she could take a hottl^ cf t!<e ramecly, and after giving it a fair trial, if she di'l not find it woith the money to bring back the bottle and I would refund the pr.co paid. In the course of a day or two the lady came back in comp-xny with a friend in need of a cough medicine, and advised hei to buy a bottle of Ciambi'iLun'i Cough, Rcme'ly. I ooiwder that a 'very good recommendation foi the remedy." It is foi sale by all dcahi-. Trice, !«, 6'd and 3d.