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for five days : in the afternoon he called 

 and asked for me ; we examined the traps, 

 and he then determined to begin catching 

 that night, without his doing any thing pre- 

 viously himself to the traps. This con- 

 vinced me of his honesty, and that he had 

 imparted the real process to me.^ 



* Col. Hanger has invented a trap, of an entirely 

 novel construction, which may be set perpetually, and 

 emptied only once a day, and the rats killed, as aireadj/ 

 dfrected. It will hold above fifty rats before it requires 

 to be emptied. Made on a larger construction, this 

 trap may be set in the woods, effectually to catch all 

 running vermin; but it must be baited in a different 

 manner than for rats, in the manner previously specified 

 in this book, with a stTfall bird hung directly over the 

 centre of the two falling bridges, with his wings dipped 

 in TINCTURE OF MUSK, and the sides of the trap 

 sprinkled with tincture of musk, to draw and allure all 

 running vermin, which tincture of musk will do at a 

 great distance. On applying to Mr. Stockdale, pub- 

 lisher of this book, information will be given where 

 this trap can be seen, and of the man who, under Col. 

 Hanger's direction, is permitted to make them. 



I am informed that Government (how true I cannot 

 say) have given a person two thousand pounds, for a 

 method to catch rats on board of our ships of war. 

 Had they only waited until this book was published, 



