The universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin / [Robert Smith].

  • Smith, Robert (Rat-catcher)
Date:
1812
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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 / [Robert Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a dog; I have taken them in a cube, where a trap for a dog has been set: the cube is formed in the manner as represented in pi. 1, fig. 2. F. by the cut therein annexed, and may be made in the centre where two paths cross, or in a warren, or park, or at any gate or stile where he comes in: if you do not find that he comes in at any of the above places over your shrapes, you must, as you go round the sides of the path, gates, and stiles, mind whether you see his billots, that is, his dung, the term being to say after he has dunged that he has billoted; if you should not rightly know it, take up what you ima- gine to be the same, and break it, and you will find it to be full of large black-beetles; sometimes you may smell him, then look .* * ' about very nicely, and it is ten to one but he has billoted somewhere near the place. Let your cube be made after this manner, draw a circle, [pi. 1. fig. 2. F.] but in the front leave just room for the trap to go in when set, then bank it up all round from one side of the jaw of the trap quite round tQ the