266 WOLDS. 



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The fpring-m!, when ufed, is, I believe, 

 generally laid round a hay-ftack, or other 

 object of inducement for rabbits to colled: in 

 numbers. 



The trap is a more modern invention. It 

 confifts of a large pit or cittern, formed 

 within the ground and covered with a floor ; 

 or with one large falling-door, with a fmall 

 trap-door toward its center, into which the 

 rabbits are led by a narrow muce. 



This trap, on its firft introduction, was fet 

 moftly by a hay-ftack hay being at that 

 time the chief winter-food of rabbits ; or on 

 the outride of the warren-wall, where rabbits 

 were obferved to fcratch much, in order to 

 make their cfcape. Since the cultivation of 

 turneps as a winter- food for this fpecies of 

 flock has become a practice, the fituarion of 

 the trap has been changed. 



Turneps being cultivated in an inclofure 

 within the warren, a trap is placed within the 

 wall of this inclofure. For a right or two 

 the muce is left open and the trap kept co- 

 vered (with a board or triangular rail), in or- 

 der to give the rabbits the requifite haunt of 

 the turneps ; which having got, the trap is 

 bared, and the required number taken, 



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