The later works of Confucius include the "lost analects", written when the sage was far gone in his dotage, and of which the only extant copy was found recently in a rabbit burrow during routine excavations by sewage workers near the town of Fu Xi. The writings include advice and exhortions described by experts Confucius as "very unusual", including "smearing your property with lard deters theft" and the more enigmatic "when travelling, always carry a bucket." The "lost analects" will be published next Spring by Harvard University Press under their original title "A Bag of Rain."