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

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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$cat, weafel and other ftinking animals of a fimilar nature, but are reckoned the fweeteft of the vermin-kind: ] caught feveral one winter on the a- forefaid foreft, and fold: their {Kins for four fhillings and fixpence each, for the fake of the fur, which i is. exceed— ingly geod.. THEIR lodging places are inold crows or magpies nefts, {ometimes in a wood=- _ pecker’s hole and in hollow trees: I have traced them: in. the fnow, and when they take to a tree they will go from one to: another with incredible fwiftnefs like a fquirrel, till they fet- tle themfelves in fome or’ other of the places before: rhentioned, where you are likely to find them. They are ve- ry fond of birds of all: kinds, particu+ larly$