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cleverly arranged, would fall a victim to the artifice. 

 Another and very excellent lure for a fox is similar to one 

 recommended for the smaller vermin, namely, the setting 

 up of a rabbit in a seat formed by one of their kind under 

 some gorse bush, or among a clump of brambles, or under 

 broken boughs, on, or immediate to, the fox's run. If the 

 seat be already shapely and very easy of notice, the rabbit 

 may be fixed as if lying very close. This is easily managed 

 by using a short sharpened peg, which ought to be first 

 stuck in the ground, and then the bait jammed down upon 

 it, when it will retain the position in which it may be 

 placed. If the seat have an entrance to it both from behind 

 as well as in front, a gin must be placed on each side ; 

 and, moreover, both must be exceedingly carefully set. 



Sometimes, however, there are no handy and suitable 

 rabbit seats to be found, or if there be any that are formed 

 under brambles, or the like, they are of too large extent ; 

 if, nevertheless, one be noticed eminently favourable, and 

 offering no concealment of the bait from any passing 

 varmint, a trap may be set at the entrance to it, the bait 

 fixed up inside, and one or more gins be neatly tilled towards 

 the back of the rabbit, and outside the mixture of briars 

 and dead sticks, intended, probably, to shield the within 

 sitting rabbits from observation. But when no forms of 

 the required nature can be discovered, it may occasionally 

 be not unadvisable to construct one or two of pieces of 

 gorse, by cutting two bunches of it, thickly grown, 

 and sticking them up together in a suitable place, so as to 

 make as natural a rabbit seat as possible. After leaving 

 these a few days the bait may be put in position, and the 



