WHAT IF THE WRONG MICROBE ?
A Northern rjapt r referring to the advent of M, P.eteur's nephew with chicken cholera nalcrobes saja :-" What, bowevs-, will be tfe cm a q ieiio if the eminent nephew of the great Profeasr»« shou'd bxppHa to have m hit pocket < i germs a wrong miorcbe. I my be possible, though not probable, t*>&( m the Parisian lab-raiory, a hfdr phobic i mloobe might get c qua tii g »i h a Chicken oholera germ, a. d t c Ul-asEort'jd pavr find their way into tha ves\ pocket ■ f M. P-ißt^nr's nephew. The result vroald be easily 'ureseen. A short time aftor the French deliverer takes op his quarters m Australia, inspectors, and sub inspectors, agents and trappers wlli be watching with m xwd feelings the rise and pr- gress of chicken cholera amongst the Nrw South Wai 8 rabbi's, wheu sudden y an iooculated buck, instead of crawling slowly to bis burrow to die, will begin to skip about and bite madly at all other rabbita ia his district, and presently quite a whole colony of cranky r^bbtts wiU be biting each other, and conducting tbemxelvea as no weli-re^u at^d rabbitM oii(.ht to bi-havp,, 'J here wil; then o me alo'tu an Inppcr , or with his d)BB, Hi>d (he rabid r^.bb tt ,_ stead of rnunin^ from tht» d<g<, w ( u' run at tbf-m. hud (he tables niii boc,,, p e te y turned by mad rabbits chnsinij mH (J doss 83? d mad dis V-ntnin t»>eir *r, ad masters.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1787, 12 March 1888, Page 4
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255WHAT IF THE WRONG MICROBE ? Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1787, 12 March 1888, Page 4
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