CHAPTER XV 



FOUND IN THE WOODS 



Various old things, relics of more barbarous clays, are 

 from time to time found in the woods. 



The large spring-trap, of a size for a fox or an otter, 

 probably dates from the beginning of the last century. It 



Otter or Fox-Trap, Toasting-Fork, and Baking-Iron 



is of the same construction as the ordinary vermin-trap, 

 but much larger, its length being two feet four inches. 



I cannot let pass the subject of these traps without 

 expressing my horror and detestation of the cruelties that 

 go on in the woods around us ; cruelties that I cannot 

 but think are absolutely unwarranted by any needs or 



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