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:
1786
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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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    i;3 THE CARRION CROW. with mofs; then take a little piece of bulky or fome fern, flick fome of it down, by one jaw quite low, and bring it round to the other jaw, [Tee plate VI. fig. i.] put the bait, whether it be an egg,, or rat, a piece of rabbit, or the guts of the fame, or any thing elfe of this fort, in the back part, on the tail of the trap; and when you have put the little fence, before defcribed ali around, as a guide for him, he mu ft’of necefllty go over the trap for the bait, and be caught * but I have been plagued with thele as much, as I have been with the Ravens, by being- obliged to move the trap after every Crow I had taken ; but by obferving when one is caught, which you may eafily hear, for they then make a great noife and keep flying round their imprifoned brother, almofl: clofe to the ground, you may then proba- bly get a fhoot, and kill fome of them j but fometim.es I have known them fo fhy that I could not get them to the trap at any rate. In this cafe you muft obferve the places where they raoft frequent, and take a cat.