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"In the court are orange-trees in pots, turf, and clumps of flowers." "And no steel-traps?" "No." "The stables?" "Are on either side of the gate, which you see there." And Andrea continued his plan. "Let us see the ground floor," said Caderousse. "On the ground-floor, dining-room, two drawing-rooms, billiard-room, staircase in the hall, and a little back staircase." "Windows?"
Still fearful of Gaut's return, she crept to the south end of the island, which she had scarcely reached when she saw him come round the point, land, drag down the body of Mark Elwood, take it out some distance from the shore, and sink it, by steel-traps and stones tied to it, deep in the lake.
The black bear is often trapped and snared, in various ways such as by log-traps, nooses tied to bent saplings, dead-falls, and steel-traps and he is thus caught much more readily than either the lynx, the fox, or the wolf. It would be easy to fill a volume with anecdotes and adventures in which the black bear figures as the hero.
"Aw sure. I have father own whole mountain more bigger here. I climb high saw wood. Leetle boy so big." And he held his hand about a foot from the ground. Thus for me every day brought out some further interesting or humorous or remarkable feature pertaining to Takahashi. The next day added to the discouragement of my party. We drove Verde Canyon and ran the dogs into a nest of steel-traps.
The Game-Laws were horribly oppressive; steel-traps and spring-guns were set all over the country; prisoners tried for their lives could have no counsel. Lord Eldon and the Court of Chancery pressed heavily on mankind. Libel was punished by the most cruel and vindictive imprisonments. The principles of Political Economy were little understood.
Yet so great was the hatred which the inhabitants entertained for the old family, that a few decent, honest people, who begged them to take down the steel-traps, and to put up humane man-traps in their room, were very roughly handled for their good nature.
Howland laughed nervously. "But it was no use. I believe I reared a Frankenstein monster when I selected him as the man to land our guns. Frankly he as much as told me to mind my business. He's in a fighting mood now; his jaws are set like steel-traps I know his kind. And do you know, Virginia, he will land us and the guns, too. You wait!"
He had some steel-traps in his packs which might serve to good purpose if he could once get the man-hunter on his trail; and he still fondly hoped to lure him over into Death Valley, where he would have to come out of the hills.
Manella drew a quick soft breath. "All the world, surely!" she answered, with emotion "To love! to possess the one we love, body and soul! and to mother a life born of such love! THAT must be heaven!" The smile flitted away from Morgana's lips, and her expression became almost sorrowful. "You are like a trusting animal!" she said "An animal all innocent of guns and steel-traps! You poor girl!
As he hobbled through the open door, Stane looked round, and under the bunk discovered a number of steel-traps which the girl on her first visit had overlooked. Also on a peg in a dark corner he found a set of dogs' harness hung just as the owner had left it, probably months before. He pointed the traps out to the girl. "As I guessed, it is a trapper's cabin, Miss Yardely.
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