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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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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    them ina cube, where a trap for a dog has been fet, the cube is formed in the manner as repfefented 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 ftile 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 don’t fee his billots, that is his dung, the term being to fay af- ter he has dunged that he has billoted, if you fhould not rightly know it, take up what you imagine to be the fame, and break it and you will find it full of large black beetles, fome- times you may fmell him, then look about very nicely, and it is ten to one Box! . but
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