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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    Sr We EN COAL os larly the wood-pigeon, or ring-dove, and turtle-dove, which in the night time they take from their roofting pla- ces. Now when you have difcover- ed by their tracks either in the earth or fnow where they go, place a com- mon box or hutch trap fuch as they ufe in warrens [pl. IL. fig. 1.] bait it with a bird, inthe fame manner as I before defcribed for the wild cat, pick off fome of the bird’s feathers, and ftrew them through the infide of the trap from one end to the other, and hang the bird on a nail; this is the way [ have caught feveral of them, but in fome places I have known them hunt- ed with hounds, when they are fure to lead the dogs through the thickeft covers they can find. They are not an animal that abounds in great num- ; bers,
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