WILY RABBITERS.
However it may be in Australia (says a writer in the Australasian), the squatter does not In New Zealand get the better of the wife “ rabbiter.” Mr Simplex, under the impression that there were only a few long-eared treaoassers on hfs run, em ployed two professional exterminators, paying each of them £1 p-r week, wiih rations, and further giving a bonus of Is per skin. At first they did not bring in many pslts, but after a time they gradually irc essed the number, apparently tryi g how imnj “the boss” would stand. The squatter, finding that he bad more rabbits than he had suspected, decided to knock off the men and try poison, as winter was approaching So te told them to bring in their tent, &o. They did so, but they also brought in, to the owner’s great surprise, some 3000 skins. He asked why these had not been brought in before. “Oh ” said one of the men with refreshing candour, "we thought if you knew we were getting so many you would either knock us off or reduce the bonus.” Thus did the astute rabbiter circumvent the guileless New Zealand squatter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1368, 12 October 1886, Page 3
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196WILY RABBITERS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1368, 12 October 1886, Page 3
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