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:
1772
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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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    ground quite level with the furface, and cover it with mofs; then take.a little piece of bufh or fome fern, ftick fome-of it down by one jaw: quite low, and bring it round to the other jaw, [fee plate VI. fig: 1] put the bait, whe- ther it be an egg or rat, a piece of rab- bit, 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 alittle fence before defcribed al:around, as a guide for him, hemuft of neceffity go over the trap for the bait, and be caught ; but: I have been: pla- gued with thefe 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