128 EXPERIENCES OF SPORT. 



matter. The entrails of rabbits are the best 

 bait for the fox. Proceed thus : 



Get a bucket full of rabbit's entrails, keep 

 them till they are more than high, or till a 

 keeper once observed to me " You wouldn't 

 come anist them once a fortnight for a crown." 

 Then put them in a heap, cover them slightly 

 with leaves, round this place in a ring some five 

 or six traps, pegged and chained. These must 

 be five or six feet from the bait and also covered 

 with leaves. 



This is almost a certain way of taking a fox. 

 He goes to have a roll in the offensive mess and 

 /generally comes to grief. 



It would here be simply impossible for me to 

 instruct fully how to trap, it would occupy a 

 -volume, and after all, I should be no nearer the 

 mark than I am now. You must use your 

 own instinct as occasion requires, and study the 

 habits of each animal you wish to take to be a 

 good trapper. 



I have seen a vast deal of it done at home 

 and abroad ; pit traps for the largest animals 

 down to the skulking cowardly wolf, and from 

 him to the nimble little stoat. 



