288 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



Set four spring traps at right angles to each 

 other, so that the bends of the springs touch 

 each other, leaving the faces of the traps set 

 in the same position as the four cardinal points 

 of a compass, North, South, East and West. 

 For the bait, take, a pound of pig's fry liver, 

 and fat the caul and meat ; cut it up in small 

 pieces the size of hazel nuts, and fry it in a 

 clean pan. You should do this frying some- 

 where close to the traps, so as to have the fat 

 hot to thro\T on the earth, all over the traps, 

 and between them. You may add a little beef 

 dripping when frying the meat. If the traps 

 are set in the middle of a fallow field, walk 

 down the furrow from the traps, and sprinkle 

 the hot fat in the furrow ; for this purpose you 

 should tie up a little bundle of twigs, and dip 

 them into the fat, using them as sprinklers. 

 Begin at the hedge where the furrow starts, 

 and go right down, past the traps, to the other 

 side of the field. If a fox crosses the field, he 

 will use the furrow, and, catching the scent, 

 will follow it up to your traps. You might 

 drop a bit of fried meat in the furrow, about 



