We told our subscribers how to make fortunes by keeping rabbits, giving facts and figures.

The thing that must have surprised them was that we ourselves did not give up journalism and start rabbit-farming.

Often and often have I proved conclusively from authoritative sources how a man starting a rabbit farm with twelve selected rabbits and a little judgment must, at the end of three years, be in receipt of an income of two thousand a year, rising rapidly; he simply could not help himself.

He might not want the money.

He might not know what to do with it when he had it.