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southern side. A pic-nic party visited the spot a short time 

 after the Club, and a boy connected with it, climbed the pole, 

 and incautiously placed his hand into the inside, and was caught, 

 and with difficulty freed. This kind of trap, which has greatly 

 thinned the native rapacious birds, is, I am told, now nearly out 

 of the trade. It and the gun have done their work thoroughly 

 up here. In Kidland scarcely a Hawk, Owl, or Raven is left. 

 I have procured from one of the Club's draughtsmen, a sketch 

 of an old Hawk-trap, to show this deadly implement. I hope 



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the Haven that escaped was not the one that was shot in Cheviot 

 during the winter, and sent to the bird- stuff er. Linhope Linns 

 are much infested by Vipers. The first time I visited it, I came 

 on a very lively one. It is exceedingly hot here in the summer 

 season to tempt them to lie out from among the stones. Badgers 

 are not yet extirpated ; at least were not a few years ago. 

 Foxes lie among the glitters lower down the watersides. There 

 is no scarcity of foxes among the hills, and drier peat-mosses. 



