Identifier: trappersguideman01newh (find matches)
Title: The trapper's guide; a manual of instructions for capturing all kinds of fur-bearing animals, and curing their skins; with observations on the fur-trade, hints on life in the woods, and narratives of trapping and hunting excursions
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Newhouse, S. (Sewell) Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
Subjects: Trapping Hunting
Publisher: Community, N.Y., Oneida community, limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ations. It feeds ongrouse, partridges, scpiirrels, mice, and other small birds andquadrupeds. It is loud of tlie dark, thick cedar swamps,where it ))r(ys on rabbits, j)ouncing on them from an over-hanging cliff or tree. Iji the Southern States, it frequents theswamps and canebrakes borilering on Iivers and lakes, and alsothe Ijriery thickets which grow up on old fields and desertedcotton lands. In dry seasons, or during the sultry weatherof suunner, it explores the courses of small streams, to feedon the fish that are left in the ileej) holes as the water driesup. Wild Cats are taken in the same way as raccoons or minks,by baiting with meat, and covering the trap smoothly over.The best way is to ffiul a place where they have killed a hare,grouse, or other game, and have left a part of the flesh for asecond meal. Set your traj) there, and you will be prettysure of a visit. The European Wild Cat is a distinct animal from the BayLynx, (u)odricli, in his Illustrated Natural History, gives
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CAPTURE OF ANIMALS. 55 the following account of this Cat and of its relations to thecommon Cat: — There are many kinds of Wi!d Cat, but that from which the do-mestic Cat is supposed to have sprung is called the Common Euro-pean Wild Cat, and is found in most parts of that quarter of theglobe, as well as in Asia and Africa; it is al-o sometimes met within this country. When America was first discovered, this species,either tame or wild, was not found here ; all our domestic Cats, aswell as the wild ones occasionally found in the woods, are the de-scendants of those brought hither by the Europeans. The Wild Catsof the European Continent are either the descendants of the originalraces that have continued untamed from the beginning, or of domes-ticated cats that have wandered from their homes, and, living apartfrom man, have relapsed into barbarism. It is said that the wildand tame Cats, in their wanderings, sometunes meet; when this isthe case, the females of the tame breed are well tr

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