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Updated: May 13, 2025
"To what danger do you refer?" He surveyed me with cunning, old rheumy eyes, and: "What about man-traps?" he inquired. "Ain't man-traps dangerous? And what about shot-guns? Shot-guns can make a party feel sick, can't they? Oh, ah!" "But," I exclaimed, "you surely don't mean that there are traps laid in the grounds of the Park? It isn't legal. And why should any one shoot at visitors?"
If I am good for nothing else, I shall be a walking weather-glass, as well as a standing warning against man-traps. 'You don't mean that you fell into a man-trap! exclaimed Mrs. Mansell, in horror. 'That will be a warning for Mr. Mansell! I have such a dread of the frightful things! 'A trap ingeniously set by myself, said Louis. 'I was only too glad no poor poacher fell into it.
Don't you feel as if we were poachers?" "Yes, or burglars! I guess we've got to burgle quietly. Hope the old lady hasn't set man-traps in her park." "Or doesn't leave savage bloodhounds to roam at large and guard the premises. Well, we shall have to take our chance. It's rather like storming a fortress isn't it?" "I call it precious!" chuckled Diana. The fence did not look too easy to scale.
Mansfeld at last came ponderously up in the neighbourhood of Turnhout. There was a brilliant little skirmish, in the neighbourhood of this place, in which a hundred and fifty Dutch cavalry under the famous brothers Bax defeated four hundred picked lancers of Spain and Italy. But Mansfeld could get nothing but skirmishes. In vain he plunged about among the caltrops and man-traps.
Next, I came to a hawthorn lane, leading down very prettily to a nice little church; a mossy little church; a beautiful little church; just such a church as I had always dreamed to be in England. The porch was viny as an arbor; the ivy was climbing about the tower; and the bees were humming about the hoary old head-stones along the walls. Any man-traps here? thought I any spring-guns? No.
The Englishman, on the contrary, ensconces himself in a snug brick mansion, which he has all to himself; locks the front door; puts broken bottles along his walls, and spring guns and man-traps in his gardens; shrouds himself with trees and window-curtains; exults in his quiet and privacy, and seems disposed to keep out noise, daylight, and company.
I knew not if I should look for man-traps within the place enclosed by the wall, but nevertheless I neglected no precaution, picking my way through the forest of weeds which had supplanted the vegetables and sweet herbs to which doubtless this land had once been sacred.
Corder, she says, 'that black doctor has the evil eye! And never was a truer word spoke. He's been the bane and blight of this 'ere place, he has." He paused from sheer lack of breath, and having allowed him some little interval of repose: "But what has the evil eye to do with the laying of man-traps and the shooting of visitors who may chance to cross the estate?" I inquired. "Ah, that's it!
He fell into conversation with no gentleman who took him into a public-house, where there happened to be another gentleman who swore he had more money than any gentleman, and very soon proved he had more money than one gentleman by taking his away from him; neither did he fall into any other of the numerous man-traps which are set up without notice, in the public grounds of this city.
Mansfeld at last came ponderously up in the neighbourhood of Turnhout. There was a brilliant little skirmish, in the, neighbourhood of this place, in which a hundred and fifty Dutch cavalry under the famous brothers Bax defeated four hundred picked lancers of Spain and Italy. But Mansfeld could get nothing but skirmishes. In vain he plunged about among the caltrops and man-traps.
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