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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    comes, and when you have fetthem, cover them with a bulh cut on purpofe, to keep any thing elfe from ftriking it, till you come round at night and uncover it again. In many country places there are people, who make it their bufinefs to take Foxes out of their earths for gentlemen to hunt them at their pleafure; thefe are properly called bag-foxes. 1 have known in fome ftony countries that they fet done traps for them at their earths, fo that it is impofiible for them to get out without being taken, but of this method of catching them I can-- not fpeak from my own experience, having, been only a fpedtator of the traps, and of confequence cannot be 1b able to judge of it, as where I have been the princi- pal aftor myfelf. X mention this to tef- tify that I would not, even in the mod minute circunidam.es, impofe on my readers. I have