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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    THE WHLD CAT. > 45 farm-houfes, and at night go out to prowl, and are of no fervice. to the owner. Asa proof of this, a farmer happening to come to the warren, who lived about three miles diftant, owned - one of the cats killed that morning, _which had left his houfe the preceding evening. Ihave caught thirty wild -Cats in a feafon at the fame warren, -and we had but two houfes: near us, upwards of a mile diftant each way, by which it appears how far thefe ani- ~mals will ramble, in fearch of their prey. I now proceed to the. manner of »taking them; when you. find they -come to any of the fore-mentioned places, get a common box trap, or -hutch trap, [pl. IL fig..1.] fuch as are | ufed
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