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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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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    them in a cube, where a trap for a dog has been fet, the cube is formed in the manner as reprefented in [pl.1. fig. 2. F.] by the cut therein annexed, and may be made in the center where two paths crofs, or in a warren, or park, or at any gate or {tile where he comes in: if you do not find that he comes in at any of the above places over your fhrapes, you muft as you go round the fides of the path, gates and ftiles, mind whether you dont fee his billots, that is his dung, the term being to fay after he has dunged rightly know it, take up what you ima- gine to be the fame, and break it and you will find it full of large black beetles, fometimes you may {mell him, then look about very nicely and it is ten to Gne
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