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Were the inventors of auto to the

excellence of their devices for producing sound artistic torture, the

creator of the h place

It should rather, however, be said, the inventor of the particular form

of man-trap of which this found in the keeper's out-house was a

specimen For there were other shapes and other sizes, instruments

which, if placed in a row beside one of the type disinterred by Tim,

would have worn the subordinate aspect of the bears, wild boars, or

wolves in a travelling er In short, thoughthose

centuries which we are accustomed to look back upon as the true and

only period of land--in the rural districts more

especially--and onward down to the third decade of the nineteenth

century, this model had borne the palm, and had been most usually

follohen the orchards and estates required new ones

There had been the toothless variety used by the softer-hearted

landlords--quite contemptible in their clemency The jaws of these

rese but

gums There were also the intermediate or half-toothed sorts,

probably devised by the middle-natured squires, or those under the

influence of their wives: two inches of mercy, two inches of cruelty,

two inches of h the

whole extent of the jaws There were also, as a class apart, the