60 UNGUENTS. 



ever the unguent may be, it should be applied by means of a 

 piece of clean linen rag ; and gloves should be worn whilst 

 the operation is being performed. The Vittringar are various, 

 everybody having a crotchet of his own. M. Norman tells us 

 that his father, a famous trapper, used a kind of oil, extracted 

 from perfectly sweet cream, boiled over a slow fire. Others 

 again recommend goose, or duck fat, &c. 



The baits also differ ; but things that dogs are supposed 

 not to touch are considered preferable : as, for instance dogs' 

 flesh, dead rats, magpies, &c. ; mice have been found very 

 successful. 



" When the trap is gillrad," so we are told by Dr. C. A. 

 Kallstenius, who has given the subject very great attention, 

 " its jaws should face the wind ; and if placed on an eminence, 

 it should be either on its eastern, southern, or western side ; 

 for I have found that if on the northern side, the fox is 

 more shy of approaching it." 



It is always desirable to make use of a Slap, thereby 

 to attract foxes to the spot. Any kind of offal will answer 

 the purpose, but a cat, roasted bodily, is considered preferable 

 to anything else. 



When caught by the fore-leg in a gin,* the fox is very 

 apt to gnaw away the limb, and thus to effect his escape. 

 Many instances of this are related on good authority. 



" My father," M. Norman tells us, for instance, " found, 

 one morning in a trap, both Michel's fore-feet, which the 

 creature himself had bitten off; but he had nevertheless been 

 enabled to make good his retreat on his stumps." And he 

 adds, what is very remarkable, " that the same fox was killed 

 by dogs, during the succeeding autumn, when it was disco- 

 vered that, instead of feet, hard substances had formed at 



