AN EXTRAORDINARY WAGER.

Kumara Times, Issue 616, 18 September 1878, Page 2

AN EXTRAORDINARY WAGER.

.. The eccetrtriteim^ividn^wh#& sWfc time since a thousand eantin to Paris on ibots • escorted Jby 50 rabMt*, and l ttf the distance in five days, ful issue of hiß first enterprise, has just announced hie on a second expedition of a similar nature. The difficulties i J first occasion were rio'tfelfgn't.'' A fort* night. before starting he f , «elected 4 i.<he says; 25'm^e.^ which troop he to accustom to the work cirt. pt^y&iji ; f|hem by trailing them to the required indifference; to dogs; to alarm tlieir^timicT i Mstifi.f h s& : .ths outset 'this raboits; proved" refractory. At t every,,, eyew sound, they, simpered/away; right fcna left, helter-skelter, re/usijig t>> be coaxed back into order, - causing thuß much precioits time Ao:,be at the prospect of lowing both -&e and their re|)litk'tidtl, : their leader tried the effect' of a stiniulanti To each rabbit he admistered tt small- dos> eao-de-yie, which appears to have plied the troop, with a cdurage foreignto their nature. ;N©< longeY titrioronS, they bounded? forward wirhv such speed that their owner -had some difficulty in keeping 'up with thOTy;'.arcivirig' in Paris some hours before thef expiration of the time cursion. Proud'.of;his: achievement, he has just bets; with anyone disposed-jst:,u|ake .them for his second enterprise.; ~"£h,is. time,;.confident in his rabbits, "especially. when under * poses to perambulate at hlidday on 'any to makeJn^L,. exit being tile "animals lapkjngV' After' tbte accomplishment* of; this feafr he 1 backs himself,, mfc for an excursion to Berlin, whichjcity he promises, to reach in 22 days,, with his troop of rabbits intacti ;. : .V. - J