The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . is, tom. 4. Paris, 1812, folio. The Norwegians of late years have the following effectualmode of getting rid of their rats: They singe the hair of one of them over a fire, and then letit loose; the stench is so offensive to his comrades that theyall immediately quit the house, and are eventually destroyedby combating with other broods. This expedient has becomeso general, that Norway is relieved of one of its greatest above method was communicated to the writer by anative, who wondered tha
The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . is, tom. 4. Paris, 1812, folio. The Norwegians of late years have the following effectualmode of getting rid of their rats: They singe the hair of one of them over a fire, and then letit loose; the stench is so offensive to his comrades that theyall immediately quit the house, and are eventually destroyedby combating with other broods. This expedient has becomeso general, that Norway is relieved of one of its greatest above method was communicated to the writer by anative, who wondered that our farmers had not adopted it. It appears in that very masterly set of etchings by SimonGuillain, or GuiUni, from dravrings made by Annibal Caracci,of the Cries of Bologna, published in 1646, that the Rat- 36 catcher had representations of rats and mice painted upon asquare cloth fastened to a pole like a flag, which he carriedacross his shoulder. The Chinese Rat and Mouse-killer carries a cat in a Ben Jonsons time, the Kings most excellent Mole-catcherlived in Tothill Street. y^^ytf/tyr/corw c^irm&J MARKING X. A HE rare wood-cut, from which the present etching wasmade, is one of the curious set of twelve figures engraved inwood of the time of James the First. Under the figure arethe following lines : Buy Marking Stones, Marking Stones buy,Much profit in their use doth lie :I ve marking stones of colour good,—or else black lead, The cry of Marking Stones is also noticed in the play ofTarquin and Lucrece. These Marking Stones, as theverses above state, are either of a red colour, or composed ofblack lead. They were used in marking of linen, so thatwashing could not take the mark out. Every one knows thatwater will not take eflFect upon black lead, particularly if thestick of that material, which is denominated a MarkingStone, be heated before it be stamped. The stone, of a redcolour, was probably of a material impregnated with the redcal
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