CHAPTER IX 



KEEPERS 



^VTiere there is a will there is a way. 



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HE sketch opposite is 

 intended to represent 

 a stoat being caught 

 in a trap, baited in 

 such a way that a fox 

 could take the bait 

 without being caught 

 by the leg, as ninety- 

 nine out of a hundred destroyed are caught — that 

 is, when these traps are covered over, and the bait 

 is on the ground under the trap. Independently of 

 this plan preserving the fox, it is the most successful 

 plan for all other vermin ; and if all friends to fox- 

 hunting were to insist on its being adopted, there 

 would not be many blank days. 



There is an old saying, " Give a dog a bad name 



