"Live Stock and Pets.
General, family 2; liberal wages and outings."—Liverpool Paper.
The difficulty with "pets" of this kind is that they are hard to get and almost impossible to keep.
"An Englishman usually finds it about as difficult to produce an R from his thoat as to produce a rabbit from a top-hat—both feats require practice."—Provincial Paper.
In this case we fear it can't be done, even with practice.