The universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin / By Robert Smith, rat-catcher to the Princess Amelia.

  • Smith, Robert (Rat-catcher)
Date:
1768
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin / By Robert Smith, rat-catcher to the Princess Amelia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4° «OF FHE FO-X: as follows: whatever place it may hap- pen to be in, you mutt take notice of all the little bye-paths all round the ground, and-fift fome mould in each of them, and place by the fide of each path, where the mould is fifted, a piece of white rag, _ ftuck upon a ftick ; for if there be any rabbits or hares near the path, they by running up and down will create fuch confufion in the mould, that it will be _ next to an impofiibility to diftinguifh the impreffion of the Fox's foot; the intent - therefore of thefe white rags is to fright the rabbets and hares-away, but the Fox will boldly proceed along regardlefs of them: as foon therefore as you have _ -difcovered which path he came along, you muft not trail for him as before, for that having feduced him into danger and led
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