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"Well, then, you tell me where your husband banks," returned Anthony. "Indeed, I cannot say." "Do you," Anthony stretched out alternative fingers, "do you get money from him to make payments in gold, or, do you get it in paper?" She stared as in terror of a pit-fall. "Paper," she said at a venture. "Well, then, name your Bank."
They are as wild as deer and as fleet as the wind, and you cannot catch them in a pit-fall." "I know that, good brother; but all I can say is, that I will try what I can do, and I can do no more but not at present, for I am too busy."
The hollow of a tree trunk forms an excellent situation for the trap, and the same hollow may also be baited at the back and a dead-fall constructed across its opening. The box or barrel pit-fall, described on page 127, is said to be very successful in trapping the marten, always baiting it with the platform secure for a few days before setting for capture.
"As may be supposed, we were cautious after this how we moved about, for we well knew that where one pit-fall had been formed, probably many more existed in the neighbourhood. We were glad when at last we had collected a sufficient supply of wood to last us through the night; and I almost fell asleep while putting the meat and cassava bread into my mouth.
And Edward walked on till he came to the pit-fall; there he stopped and looked round, and soon discovered the verderer at a hundred yards' distance. Edward held his dog by the mouth, that he should not growl or bark, and then went on in a direction so as to bring the pit-fall exactly between Corbould and himself.
It was the pit-fall. That was the way by which Bushmen most generally caught large animals, and Swartboy perfectly understood how to construct a pit for quaggas. Hendrik saw objections to this, very similar to those he had urged against the snare.
This trap is much used in India and Asia for the capture of the tiger, and the jaguar of South America is frequently entrapped by the same devices. Many methods are adopted by the natives for the destruction of the terrible creatures, some of which have already been described. The pit-fall is still another device by which this lurking marauder is often captured and destroyed.
They soon got back to the pit-fall, Guapo of course leading the way. "Hola!" cried the latter, when he came in sight of it, "hola, young master! he's in the trap!" Sure enough he was; and the next moment they stood upon the edge of the pit, and beheld the great brown body struggling and tumbling about at the bottom. Guapo did not pause a moment, but leaped in, macheté in hand.
Having done so, he proceeded at a more rapid pace; and Corbould following him, also increased his, till he arrived at the pit-fall, which he could not perceive, and fell into it headlong; and as he fell into the pit, at the same time Edward heard the discharge of his gun, the crash of the small branches laid over it, and a cry on the part of Corbould.
"Yes," replied Alice, "I will have it ready before the pony is in the cart. Edith, dear, come with me." Humphrey then went out to harness the pony, and when all was ready, he and Oswald set off again. When they arrived at the pit-fall they found Corbould lying between the two other verderers, who were sitting by his side.
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