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How to make and set traps : Including hints on how to trap moles, weasels, otter, rats, squirrels and birds. Also how to cure skins / by J. Harrington Keene.
Author
Keene, J. Harrington.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Journal
Language
English
Publish Date
1902
Publisher
New York : Frank Tousey
Series
Ten cent handbooks > no. 40
Source
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
Ten cent handbooks -- no. 40
Topic
Trapping > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Hunting > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Hides and skins > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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HOW
TO MAKE AND SET TRAPS.
I.
THE MOLE,
Dirt has been defined as ‘matter in the wrong place.” |
It is very useful, and, indeed, indispensable, as earth in
a garden, but decidedly unbecoming and dirty when on your.
face or clothes. In a similar way, most of the creatures
termed ‘ vermin” are in themselves very graceful and beau-
tiful specimens of the Creator’s handiwork, but’ when they
encroach on man’s paths of progress and improvement
they become ‘' vermin,” and though all life should be looked
upon. as a fearful and wonderful thing, not to be lightly
taken from its possessor, they are then justifiably slain.
The little gentleman in black velvet—the mole—is-a love-
ly-coated. little fellow, possessing many virtues, such ag,
courage, industry, and parental affection, but when he once
gets into your father’s garden, which has probably cost
money and exceeding care to render it neat and productive,
our little friend is transformed into one of the most trouble.
some of vermin,” and must be relentlessly sacrificed by
the trapper. If this is not done, Master Mole will himself
sacrifice the crops in his efforts to get at the worms, which,
as the late Charles Darwin so conclusively showed, are one
of the great regenerating forces of the land’s fertility.
Look at rats again, See hew. lithe and agile they are,
how fond of their young, and provident in storing food for
future consumption; yet they are without a redeeming exe
cellency if, like dirt, they are in the wrong place—as they
are, by the way, pretty certain to be. *
Of the squirrel Mr. Ruskin, in his marvelously eloquent j
way, has said: ‘* Of all quadrupeds . . . there is none_ .
80 beautiful or 80 happy as the squirrel. Innocent in ali his
ways, harmless in his food, playful as a kitten, but without