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placing the bait on the ground under the trap 

 which is covered over, the proper plan, and most 

 successful for catching small vermin, is to set the 

 trap in a low place as before ; then fasten the bait 

 on a forked stick, about two feet long, and the 

 other end should be stuck in the ground, lea\dng 

 the bait on it about twelve inches high over the 

 trap, when every weasel or pole-cat, etc., "will come 

 to it, and in reaching to get the bait, are certain to 

 be caught ; but if a fox comes he takes the bait 

 ^\'ithout stepping on the trap, as he winds the trap 

 and reaches over it. 



Though last, not least, one hint to the fair sex, 

 who are always ready to do a kind act to fox- 

 hunters when they have it in their power, and 

 many would give substantial proofs of it, if they 

 had opportunities Hke the following. It happened 

 in a country' once hunted by the "vvTiter that a 

 respectable farmer's vnfe had lost a great number of 

 poultry, including some dozens of full-growTi 

 turkeys. Not far distant lived a ^vddow lady, who 

 heard of this loss as well as the cause of it, and, as 

 no one could think of offering to pay the damage 

 done to so respectable a person, a short time after 

 the loss this lady sent a hamper of wine. It is quite 

 unnecessary to say it, but it is a fact that no cover 



