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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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12 ~ HOW TO MAKE AND SET TRAPS.
by the Dalkeith road. He observed on the high ground at
a considerable distance betwixt him and Craigmillar Castle
“a man who wag leaping about performing a number of antic
gestures more like those of a madman than of a sane per--
son. After contemplating this apparently absurd conduct, .
he thought it might be some unfortunate maniac; and,
climbing over the walls, made. directly towards him. When.
he got pretty near he saw that the man had been attacked,
and was defending himself against the assaults of a number
_of small animals which he at firat took for rats, but which,
in fact, turned out.on getting closer, to be a colony of from
fifteen to twenty weasels, which the unfortunate man was.
- tearing from him and endeavoring to keep from his throat.
Had he not been a powerful man, capable of sustaining the
extreme fatigue of this singular exertion, he probably would ~
have succumbed to the repeated efforts made by the fero-
cious little creatures to get at his throat. As it was, his
hands were much bitten, and bleeding profusely.
‘It further appears that the com: encement of the battle
_ was nearly as follows.. He was walking slowly. through the
park when he happened. to see a weasel. He ran at it, and
made several unsuccessful attempts to strike it with a small
cane he held in his hand. On-coming near the rock, he got
between it and. the animal,-and thus cut off retreat... The
weasel squeaked out aloud, when a sortie of the whole colony
was made, and the affray. commenced.
Apropos of this, I have read somewhere of a colony of
rats attacking a condemned criminal in the sewers of Paris
—or in a dungeon closely contiguous—-and-I can quite be-
lieve that hunger and numbers would render these horrible
vermin capable of homicide. . - - So
I do not quite see how- any one can pity the members of
this weasel family.. Let any one.of my boy readers hear the
agonized cries of a pursued rabbit as it finds its rentless foe
chasing it with a determination and persistence quite -wn-
equaled, and he will probably find the American love of fair
play prompt him to take the weaker.creature’s part. - |
Emphatically I declare it—a weasel never relinquishes 118
quarry till the life's blood has been sucked and the Lrain ex-
tracted and eaten.. Then wasteful as the little tyrant 18, the
ratg may have the remainder, whilst it seeks for more prey.
Its little finger-thick body . and black, venom-leaden eyes
seem the incarnation of destructiveness, whilst over the
sharp incisive teeth rows might well be written ,
‘“Ch'entrate lasciate ogni speranza,
~ the terrible epigraph Dante, in his wonderful “ Divina Com-
media,” saw inscribed over the. portals of the infernal
regions. .
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