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The black bear has a habit of treading in a beaten track, which is easily detected by the eye of an experienced hunter or trapper, and turned to good account in trapping the animal. There are various modes of accomplishing this result. The bear Dead-fall, described on page 17, is, perhaps, the most commonly used, and the Pit-fall, page 31, and "Giant Coop" trap are also excellent.
"Poor man, no doubt. But how about poor me? Why, it turns out I am sole executor." "But, dear uncle, how could the poor soul help dying?" "That is not candid, Lucy," said Mr. Fountain, severely. "Did ever I say he could help dying? But he could help coming here under false colors, a mahogany face, and trapping his friend."
Working in the shanties, trapping, making a little money from time to time as a guide or in trade with the Indians, that is the life for me; but to scratch away at the same fields from one year's end to another, and stay there forever, I would not have been able to stick to that all my life; I would have felt like a cow tethered to a stake." "That is so, some men are made that way.
So he and Beckwith started, and at the same time we pulled out for the head of Green river. They went to the head of Snake river, and I afterwards learned that they trapped there all winter with splendid success, but trapping being so good they stayed too late in the spring.
Even apart from that he was uncommonly glad to see Tommy Ashe. "It doesn't go much at all," he said. "As a matter of fact, I just got back to Lone Moose to-night after being away for weeks." "Same here," Tommy responded. "I've been trapping. Heard you'd gone to Pachugan, but thought it was only for supplies.
He contracted no bad habits, but learned the usefulness and happiness of resisting temptation; and became so well schooled that he was able, by the caution and advice of wisdom founded on experience, to prevent many a promising and skilful hand from grasping ruin in the same vortex." In the fall of this year Kit joined another trapping expedition.
Bakie has his trapping on Beaver River, and he knew all about it, and tells me that we had come over the worst part of the river. At the New Year I saw Duncan M'Lean again, and he said he would meet me on the 16th January at Donald's, to start from there up the bush to get Mr. Hubbard's body, and the things we left, if I can find them.
"Made last winter. Somebody's been trapping through here." After a time a blaze on a tree was similarly remarked. Then the travellers came to a tiny creek, which, being followed, soon debouched into a larger. This in turn became navigable, after the north-country fashion. That is to say, the canoe with its load could much of the time be floated down by the men wading in the bed of the creek.
It was upon a plan similar to the wire cages used for trapping rats where the rat can easily find its way in, but has not sufficient cunning to know the road out again. Precisely as the wire funnel is constructed for the rats, Frank had made one of rails for his turkeys; and waited patiently until some of them should enter it.
At all events, there were enough of them to "ration" me for a long while I hoped long enough for my purpose. The question was, how should I capture them? I could think of no other way but by feeling for them with my hands, and boldly grasping them, one at a time, and so squeezing the life out of them. I had already given my attention to trapping them, without success.
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