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lay hold. They are not very difficult to trap, 

 once you know their haunts the roots of hedges, 

 drains below roads, cairns of stones, &c. ; and 

 if a trap is set where they have killed chickens, 

 the bodies being allowed to remain, you will 

 have one of the culprits next morning, and if 

 his body is hung up a short distance from the 

 ground and traps set beneath, his or her mate 

 will be got later on in the day or the night 

 following. I have known this only once to fail, 

 and it was last year when I shot a male Stoat 

 that had taken refuge in the centre of a hedge 

 where the terriers had hunted him. His body 

 was hung up, and as more than one of the 

 terriers had mouthed him, there was a fetid 

 atmosphere around sufficient to draw anything 

 for which it had attraction a mile away ; but 

 although the traps remained set for weeks, they 

 remained unsprung. 



Standing still, or concealing oneself, near to 

 the Weasels' retreat, they may, on a warm sunny 

 day, be made to show themselves by making 



