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Badgers. 



Badgers are pernicious creatures, and destroy 

 young lambs, pigs and poultry. 



Some take them in a steel trap, or a spring, as 

 foxes are taken. 



Some make a pitfall about five foot deep, and 

 four long, make it narrow at the top and bottom, 

 and wider in the middle; then cover it with some 

 small sticks and leaves so that he may fall in when 

 he comes on it; sometimes a fox is taken thus. 



Others hunt the badger to his hole in a moon- 

 light night, and dig him out. 



Hedgehogs always make their cave or cabin 

 contrary to the wind. 



Foxes. 



Foxes are great destroyers of lambs, poultry, 

 geese, &c. to destroy which, take a sheeps paunch, 

 and tie it to a long stick, then rub your shoes well 

 upon it, thai he may not scent your sweaty feet; 

 draw this paunch after you as a trail, a mile or 

 more, and bring it near some thick headed tree: 

 leave your paunch, and get into the tree with a gun, 

 and as it begins to be dark, you will see him come 

 after the scent of the trail, where you may shoot 

 him: draw the trail if you can to windward of the 

 tree. 



To take a Fox in a steel-trap. 



The best way is to set your trap in the plain 

 part of a large field, out of the way of all paths, 

 yet not near a hedge, or any shelter: then open 

 th< j trap, set it on the ground, and cut out just 

 thr form thereof in a turf, and take out so much 

 eailh, as to make room to stay it, then cover it 

 apain very neatly with the turf you cut out: and 

 as tb' = joint of the turf will not dose exactly, get 

 &ome mould oi a new cast up mole hill, and put 



