text:  Removing the check from the spring from one set of traps after another armed with short stout stick and furnished with a bag slung from his shoulder Featherston put himself on the alert and the moment he heard the click of a trap he ran to it removed the bundle of straw knocked the rat on the head if alive threw it out of the trap set it again replaced the bundle again put the rat into the bag and was again on the watch from one place to another