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a trap set for tliat pnrpose. Sometimes tMs trap (or properly 

 springe) is set with anotlier fork placed at riglit angles to tlie 

 other, and suflS.ciently distant from it to jnst catch the opposite 

 end of the crosspiece, and though, perhaps, this plan allows it to 

 be set a little finer, it has many disadvantages. 



Tet another modification of the same springe. The wand or 

 spring- stick, crosspiece, and nooses as before, but instead of the 

 simple catch, use a complete bow, with both ends stuck in the 

 ground. At some little distance from this drive in a straight 

 piece of stick ; next procure a piece of stick with a complete 

 fork or crutch at one end. To set it, draw down the spring-stick 

 and pull the crosspiece under the bow by the top side farthest 

 from the spring-stick. Now hold it firmly with one hand while 



Fig. 3.— "Springe" for Snipe. 



you place the forked stick with its crutch pressing against the 

 opposite upright stick, and bring its free end against the lower 

 end of the crosspiece, and adjust both as finely as you can. 

 rinally, arrange the nooses in such a manner that if either of 

 them or the crutched stick is touched the latter falls, and 

 releasing the crosspiece, the spring-stick flies up, and the bird 

 with it. To see the setting of this at a glance, vide Mg. 3 

 (showing only one noose, however), which I have "cribbed" from 

 a tail piece of Bewick's, putting it a little out of drawing to show 

 it up. 



The next simple trap to be considered is evidently the pit-fall, 

 used only, however, for large and fierce animals, and varying 

 in construction in different countries. For descriptions of 

 methods of baiting for and catching such animals as lions. 



