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p. 28 (a) text — lead on

I have been assured by a volunteer that he has often seen many large earth-worms crawling quickly about the grass, a few minutes after his company had fired a volley with blank cartridges. The Peewit (Trigon Vanellus Linn.) seems to know instinctively that worms will emerge if the [line excised]

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hear from Mr. Moorhouse) that a young peewit kept in confinement need to stand on one leg & beat the turf with the other until the worms crawled out of their burrows, where they were instantly doomed. Nevertheless, worms do not invariably leave their burrows when the ground is made to tremble; as I know by having beaten it with a spade but perhaps it was beaten too violently.