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The others were just about ready to start out to learn what the various traps contained. "Don't forget about that bear, Uncle Jim!" shouted Steve. "I sure won't," answered the old man, waving his hand. "If he's been back over that trail you'll lug out Old Tom and give him a chance to earn his keep, won't you!" pursued Steve. "That's right, I will."
But I am most anxious to hear the surgeon's report, and whether poor Osbaldistone will do well. Peter, oblige me by going on board, and put two marines sentry over the hatchway, so that no one goes down and pulls the traps about; for I'll send on shore everything belonging to the passengers, for Colonel O'Brien's sake." The surgeon's report was made six killed and sixteen wounded.
They pushed rapidly through the thicket, then ran toward their traps. Faintly they could see the wildcat. The pup was worrying it. With arched back, hair erect, eyes ablaze, and snarling furiously, the wildcat was waiting its opportunity to strike. The pup circled about it, yelping and barking, every second growing bolder because the animal did not spring at it.
"It's all afire, sir," he said, coughing and spluttering through the smoke. "Are there any of the captain's traps inside?" "Nothing at all," replied the lieutenant. "Let's go in, however, and see what can be done." They entered, but were driven back by the baffling smoke and the flames that were now licking all over the dry plastering of the room.
Technicalities he considered merely the complicated inventions of lawyers, to exhibit their perverse ingenuity traps to catch the well-meaning or unwary, or avenues of escape for the guilty.
So I get up, and take the trap downstairs in the dark right away down to the first floor. And there I let the mouse go those folk down there are rich enough to keep him. The only drawback is that my old woman is so cross in the morning, and she spends her life thinking of new traps. Ah, ben! Je la laisse faire! 'And this place suits you? 'Admirably till the cold comes. Then I march.
See, back there under the eaves there are a lot of klipsies. That's what they call their fox traps. Yes, this no doubt is the camp of a trapper or two who live here in the winter-time." "But where do they go in the summer?" asked John. "Probably to some of their own villages. It's almost too late now to trap foxes for their furs, so the chances are there will be no one here until next winter."
On one side you have an extensive view of the sea, and on the other the Downs, covered with innumerable flocks of sheep, so justly held in estimation for their delicious flavour." The curious T-shaped cuttings still to be seen in the sides of the Downs may be remarked; these are where the traps set to catch wheatears were set.
Early in July the salmon enter the river in immense numbers from the sea, and are caught by the natives in gill-nets, baskets, seines, weirs, traps, and a dozen other ingenious contrivances cut open, cleaned, and boned by the women, with the greatest skill and celerity, and hung in long rows upon horizontal poles to dry.
At length I resolved to try a pitfall; so I dug several large pits in the earth, in places where I had observed the goats used to feed, and over these pits I placed hurdles of my own making too, with a great weight upon them; and several times I put ears of barley, and dry rice, without setting the trap; and I could easily perceive, that the goats had gone in, and eaten up the corn, that I could see the mark of their feet: at length, I set three traps in one night, and going the next morning, I found them all standing, and yet the bait eaten and gone.
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