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outside slips loose and the boards at both ends fall 

 down, and the rabbits are thus shut in. Branches, 

 Armar, made of small sprays, spratar, go out from 

 these traps on four sides, as in a Ryssja, Kipe, or 

 "fish-trap "* to lead the rabbits in. 



In the fence itself which separates the fields from this 

 inclosure, there were also such traps, but only open 

 at the end which turned towards the arable fields and 

 nailed up at the other end towards' the plain, slatten, 

 where the rabbits were. It thus seemed that the owner 

 of the arable field was at liberty to catch all rabbits 

 which were in his field and wished to go out of it, but 

 had not leave to take any if one should go from the 

 warren into the fields. We saw afterwards the same 

 day at two other places, the one between Bell Bar and 

 Cheshunt, the other between Waltham A bbey and Woodford, 

 such places, on the open ground, where rabbits were 

 kept, and where there were similar traps to catch them 

 with. At the former place they had their dwelling in 

 the side of a bank, where the owner had had several 

 longitudinal and transverse ditches dug, of 3 feet deep, 

 to lead off the water which came running down from 

 the bank above, and prevented it from thus trickling to 

 the place where the rabbits had their holes, but that 

 the ground might be dry for them. We saw them 

 run there by thousands. They had dragged brackens 

 down into their holes. No [T. I. p. 352] other food 

 was given them, than what they themselves could find 

 on the ground. The owner seemed in consequence to 

 have a considerable profit from the ground he let out 

 as a rabbit warren. 



* A long round tapering wicker-basket, called "fish-coop 1 ' on the 

 Humber, "kipe" in Oxfordshire, "put," "putch," or "cype,'' on the Severn, 

 formerly ''cyt," '■ kydel." [J. L.] 



