CHAPTER IX 



KEEPERS 



Where there is a will there is a way. 



jHE sketch on p. 146 is 

 intended to represent 

 a stoat being caught 

 in a trap, baited in 

 such a way that a fox 

 could take the bait 

 without being caught 

 by the leg, as ninety- 

 nine out of a hundred 

 destroyed are caught — ^that is, when these traps 

 are covered over, and the bait is on the ground 

 under the trap. Independently of this plan pre- 

 serving the fox, it is the most successful plan for 

 all other vermin ; and if all friends to fox-hunting 

 were to insist on its being adopted, there would 

 not be many blank days. 



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