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Humane destruction of rats and mice / by C.W. Hume.

Love as a wicker trap enticing people into marriage: couples dance into the trap; Cupid is sitting above the entrance. Engraving, 17--.

Japanese wooden mechanical fly-trap, with emptied contents. Photograph, 1905/1915.

A rat caught in a trap; victim to man's efforts to stem the spread of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

A fox in agony with its paw caught in a trap. Wood engraving by J Bateman.

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Love as a wicker trap enticing people into marriage: couples dance into the trap; Cupid is sitting above the entrance. Engraving, 17--.

A fox in agony with its paw caught in a trap. Wood engraving by J Bateman.

Japanese wooden mechanical fly-trap, with emptied contents. Photograph, 1905/1915.

A rat caught in a trap; victim to man's efforts to stem the spread of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

Humane destruction of rats and mice / by C.W. Hume.