16 JULY 1927, Page 14

HORRORS OF THE STEEL TRAP [To the Editor of the

SPECTATOR.] have read with much interest the letters on t4 " Horrors of the Steel Trap," and I am most grateful to` Mrs. Poole and W. Worthington for their excellent letters, A lady once told me that she went into a shop to buy a rabbit and on inquiring it the rabbit had been trapped, the shop- keeper answered, " Oh, yei, Madam, we never sell any other than trapped rabbits." The lady refused to buy one. If only

more people would refuse in this matter, this evil would soon cease. The very fact, that this shop only sold trapped rabbits shows that there must be a large demand for them.—I am, Sir, &c.,

WILFRED P. H. WARNER.

Gloucester House, Vane Hill, Torquay, Devon.