344 HOW TO TAKE BADGERS, 



HOW TO TAKE BADGERS, FOXES, 



AND OTHER FOUR-FOOTED 



VERMIN, BY TRAIN. 



The best train for the badger, is hog's 

 flesh ; as by taking a bit of pork and train 

 over a badger's burrow, if he be within you 

 will soon see him appear without, and having 

 a spring-snare placed at the burrow's mouth, 

 the moment the badger gets his leg, or legs, 

 in the snare, he will spring up three or four 

 feet from the ground, and be suspended ; you 

 may then bag him as you please. When the 

 badger forsakes his hole, the fox frequently 

 takes possession of it, wherein he will de- 

 fend himself stoutly against a terrier, but not 

 so vigorously as a badger, neither is the biting 

 so dangerous. If it is a bitch fox, and should 

 be taken in clicketting time, cut out the gut 

 that holds her sperm together with her stones, 

 or those kidneys which gelders take from 



