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In a dark corner there lies a singular-looking piece of 

 mechanism, a relic of the olden times, which, when dragged 

 into the light, turns out to be a man-trap. These terrible 

 engines have long since been disused — being illegal, like 







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spring-guns — and the rust has gathered thickly on the 

 metal. But, old though it be, it still acts perfectly, and can 

 be ' set ' as well now as when in bygone days poachers and 

 thieves used to prod the ground and the long grass, before 

 they stepped among it, with a stick, for fear of mutilation. 

 The trap is almost precisely similar to the common 



