CRUEL TRAPPING
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Anti-Steel-Trap League of America inforins me of an exceptionally cruel device, used in that country, for catching fur-bearers. ft is called the iet-hook, and consists of a barbed fish-hook mounted on a wire trace with swivel attached.
This contraption is hung where an animal will reach for and swallow the baited hook. He is thus left dangling in mid-air, and no amount of writhing will twist and sever the wire, which turns on the swivel with every movement of the tortured animal. This would, of course, have the advantage of leaving no trap marks on skins, which are to be worn made up with the feet attached.
I have now been obliged to omit broadtail from the White List, because it has been reported that the mother sheep are often treated in the cruellest way in order to cause the prema- ture birth of broadtail. May I ask those who are thinking of buying new furs this winter to write to me for a copy of the White List, which gives the names of furs humanely obtained ?
Founder of the Fur Crusade.
Wappenliant, Towcester, Northants.
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