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brick and stakes, to support the brick in its inclin- 

 ing position, taking care to place all the beans on 

 the under side of the brick. The mice in eating 

 the beans will also cut the packthread, and so dis- 

 engage the brick, or stone, which, falling on them, 

 kills them. 



There is nothing new in the foregoing method ; 

 but as field-mice will seldom enter a close trap, I 

 thought proper to mention it. 



As mice are frequently carried into gardens with 

 straw, or litter, and are there extremely hurtful, 

 destroying Beans and Pease in Spring, as also Let- 

 tuces, Melons, and Cucumbers in frames, it is ne- 

 cessary to take some pains to destroy them. 



