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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 519

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numennis warm springs often found inthe north, and covering the pan with moss.Beyond the trap a grouse should dangle froman upright stick, and the fox, rather than wetits foot in this cold climate, will, in order toreach the bait, place it u])on the deceptive mossand become caught. The Cross and… … Leaving the Hut. some fifty miles of traps over mountain andvalley, composed of deadfalls, snares, and steeltraps at intervals of a third of a mile apart, witha rough lean-to every twenty miles to sleepunder and to cache a few provisions in. Thetrapping season lasts from November to April,…

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