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THE EAT. 
DIFFERENT KINDS OF POISON. 
First Poison, — Mix up some flour with honey and a little 
ox-vomit, till it comes to a paste, then cut it into pieces 
about the size of dice, and put them into the holes ; and it 
will most assuredly destroy the inmates. 
Second Poison. — Take some of the best oatmeal and colo- 
quintida powder, and make them into a paste with honey ; 
then cut them into dice, and lay them in the rat-haunts. 
Third Poison. — Mix the seeds of wild cucumbers and 
black hellebore with such food as they eat, and it will kill 
them. Or make a stiff paste with oatmeal, honey, and 
powdered hellebore. This alone will suffice. But let those 
persons who mix these things be cautious in the use of 
them, for they are as destructive to human life as they are 
to meaner animals. 
Fourth Poison. — Mix honey, metheglin, bitter almonds, 
and white hellebore, with flour or oatmeal ; make the whole 
into a stiff paste ; then throw pieces into their holes, and it 
kills them. Some destroy them by putting hemlock seeds 
into their holes. 
Fifth Poison. — Make a paste of bitter almonds, coloquin- 
tida, wheaten flour, and honey ; then put it into their holes, 
or lay it where they frequent, and it will certainly destroy 
them. 
Sixth Poison. — Put into their holes hemlock seeds, and 
powdered hellebore, mixed with good oat or barley meal, 
and they will so eat of it as to kill themselves. 
Seventh Poison. — Take black hellebore, bitter almonds, 
wild cucumber, and henbane seeds in equal portions ; then 
pound them to a powder, and make a paste of them with 
hog's-lard and the best oatmeal. This will destroy them 
both in fields or houses. 
Now we come to that most deadly substance, and which 
is more resorted to than all the rest put together, namely, 
arsenic. 
Arsenical Paste. — Take one ounce of finely-powdered 
arsenic, one ounce of fresh butter, and make them into a 
paste with oatmeal and honey ; then spread it about those 
I>arts of the house they mostly frequent. They will eat of 
