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Following the Equator
Part 4

CHAPTER XXX
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Some think there is none there now.
In England the poacher is watched, tracked, hunted--he dare not show his face; in Bluff the cat, the weasel, the stoat, and the mongoose go up and down, whither they will, unmolested.

By a law of the legislature, posted where all may read, it is decreed that any person found in possession of one of these creatures (dead) must satisfactorily explain the circumstances or pay a fine of not less than L5, nor more than L20.

The revenue from this source is not large.

Persons who want to pay a hundred dollars for a dead cat are getting rarer and rarer every day.

This is bad, for the revenue was to go to the endowment of a University.


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