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bait, you might use a pound of real good old 

 Cheshire cheese ; cut it up like the pig's fry, only 

 into smaller pieces, and use it in the same way. 



Another plan is to take a dead cat, and put 

 it into a hot dung hole, and let it remain 

 three to four days, according to the heat 

 of the dung ; take an old pail and put the cat 

 into it, cart her off to the traps and lay her in 

 the middle of them, just slightly covering her 

 over with earth ; this will draw any dog or fox 

 to the traps. I have seen a dog, going along 

 the road, catch scent of this bait half a mile 

 away in full wind, and, leaving the cart and 

 his master, go straight off to the traps and get 

 caught. 



The cat ought to lay on the manure heap 

 until you can spread the muck out over her, 

 with a spade. Put the dead cat, thus 

 seasoned, into an old hollow stub in the wood, 

 or a tree under which rabbits burrow, push it 

 into one of the holes to the extent of fifteen 

 or eighteen inches, and set one trap at the 

 hole. Do the same thing at an old rabbit 

 earth in a pit, if you can find one, or in an earth 



