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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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24 HOW TO MAKE AND SET TRAPS.
Daniel, in his ‘Rural Sports,” says “the trap must be set
in and covered with mud to prevent the otter seeing it. The
instant the trap strikes, the otter plunges into the water with
it, when its weight preventing his rising to the surface soon
destroys bim.” But I incline to my own plan
in preference. Of course, if the ‘spoor,”
‘¢spraint,” or ‘‘seal” cannot be seen it is ad-.
visable to set several traps at intervals along
the bank, covering them lightly with moss.
Vv.
THE SQUIRREL.
4 ~ At the commencement of this series of arti-
cles I referred to the squirrel, and quoted the
words in’ which Mr. Ruskin describes his un-
bounded admiration for this sprightly little fel-
low. Tne squirrel has a very voracious appetite,
however, and if he once by accident or design
tastes the luscious richness of pheasant or par-
tridge egg he becomes a poacher of very ex.
treme character. Game-keepers do not object
to squirrels ag a rule, as long as they contine
themselves to those. parts of a covert where
game are not, though in the case of iargely
stocked preserves these parts are not easily
found.
When Master.‘* Squegy,” however, takes to
sucking eggs and teaching his grandmother
and uncles, aunts and cousins, to do the same,
then it becomes o manifest duty to snare him
and take him away if you do not kill him. Ot
course it is not likely that my boy readers will
be called upon to assist professionally in such 9
proceeding, but I will briefly describe tow squir-
rels may be caught alive, for when removed
from the place of mischief they make capital
y pets after a time of patience and taming.
It is necessary for two to embark in the pro-
ceedings that tallow. One is the climber, and
he. [ need scarcely say, should be a tolerably
good one. A pair of climbing irons are almost
indispensable, and I should certainly advise
boys to get them. He is also provided with
long pole with a loop of fine twisted brass wire
attached to it (Fig. 1).
Now let us term these two warriors a and ». Having
spotted a squirrel and observed him run up atree, a attaches
his irons and prepares to climb. Before this 3 done p stands
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Fig. 1.
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