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animals, which can be discovered in the grass and bushes. 
Mouse-traps may be set anywhere where the animals are 
suspected, either by their footmarks in the sand, their 
droppings, or holes in the earth. 
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The Natural History Museum, South Kensington, supply 
full directions for preparing small mammal skins, which 
should be carefully studied, and a mouse or two should be 
skinned by the would-be collector according to these in- 
structions before he leaves England. 
