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deep pit is dug, and over it a kid or lamb is sus- 

 pended in a basket, with a pot of water hang- 

 ing above, having a small hole in it, through 

 which a drop at a time falls on the kid and 

 makes it cry. The sound attracts the wolves to 

 the spot, and when they make their spring at 

 the bait, they fall into the pit beneath, which is 

 kept from their view by being covered with loose 

 green leaves. 



When I was stationed at Cawnpore, a wolf had 

 young under a gentleman's pleasure house in his 

 garden, about a hundred yards from my house. 

 A child two years old, belonging to one of my ser- 

 vants, was carried away by it. I made applica- 

 tion to the gentleman for leave to dig out the 

 wolves, which he refused, observing that I should 

 undermine and throw down his house. I then 

 contrived to fix a noose, made with wire and strong 

 cord twisted together, over the hole, and placed 

 above it a tin cannister, partly filled with stones, 

 which, felling down when the wolf pulled the noose, 

 frightened him and gave alarm to my people. It 

 was caught the first night, and secured in a box ; 

 the next day, several gentlemen assembled, when 

 we procured many mastiffs, and let them loose 

 together in a compound, surrounded by a wall 



