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of houses, of say five or six, I might then, after 

 looking through, give a guarantee to clear them 

 completely. 



These are the fullest details I can give you, 

 and if you will put any of the ways I have 

 mentioned into practice you will find that they 

 are all successful, especially the covering of 

 traps. I can give you just one more instance 

 in Manchester, where I was engaged. The 

 workpeople had been tormenting the Eats with 

 traps, not knowing how to set them. They 

 sent for me, and on my looking round the 

 place I knew there was a lot of Eats. I 

 submitted my price to do the job, and when I 

 went down one night with 40 traps, dog, and 

 two ferrets I thought I should catch 20 or 30 

 Eats, but I found that they had plagued them 

 so much with their attempted trapping that 

 I only caught three in the whole night. This 

 place belonged to a limited company, and 

 when I went before the committee the next 

 morning they were not satisfied. I told them 

 that their own workpeople had tormented the 

 Eats so much with traps that the Eats would 

 not go near one. I then told the committee 

 that I would still stick to my terms, but I 

 would leave the job over for a fortnight. Now 

 during that fortnight I went down a good 

 many times, and laid the sawdust as I have 



