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will easily slip, and fasten it to the end of the 

 stick that springs; also have in readiness- four 

 small hooked sticks; then go to the furrow or pas- 

 sage of the mole, and after you have opened it, 

 fit in the little board with the bended hoops down- 

 wards, that the mole when she passes that way, 

 may go directly through the two semicircular 

 hoops. Before you fix the board down, put the 

 hair spring through the hole in the middle of the 

 board, and place it round, that it may answer to 

 the two end hoops, and with the small sticks, and 

 gently put it in the hole to stop the knot of the hair 

 spring: place it in earth in the passage, and by 

 thrusting in the four hooked sticks, fasten it, and 

 cover it with earth, and then when the mole pass- 

 es either the one way or the other, by displacing 

 or removing the small stick that hangs perpen- 

 dicularly downwards, the knot passes through the 

 hole, and the spring takes the mole about the 

 neck. Though the description seem tedious, yet 

 this is very plain, and easily performed; these 

 vermin being so very prejudicial, even worse to 

 ground than swine. 



Weasels. 



Take sal armoniac, and beat it, and with wheat 

 flour and honey make it into a paste, with the 

 white of an egg, and lay it in pellets where they 

 come, and they eat it, and it kills them! 

 Weasels to f tight away Mice. 



Put bells about his neck, and let him run about 

 your house, and he'll frighten away all the mice. 

 'Tis their nature to destroy mice, therefore some 

 people love to have them about their houses. 

 That Weasels may not suck the eggs. 



Lay rue about the hens that lay, and they will 

 not come near them. 



