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a shoelace, a buckskin thong, or even a strip of clothing, 

 may be used as a snare. There are many ways of making 

 a rabbit snare, but the simplest is the best. The essentials 

 are, first, the snare — an ordinary running noose; second, 

 a twitch-up; that is either a branch bent down, or a pole 

 laid in the crotch of a sapling. If the nearest sapling does 

 not have a crotch the twitch-up can be fastened to it with a 

 willow withe. 



Pole for rabbit snare and various ways of setting the noose. 



The snare is fast to the end of the pole, and spread open 

 in a well-worn runway. The loop is about four inches 

 across and placed four inches from the ground. The pole 

 twitch-up is held down by placing the cross-piece of the 

 snare under some projecting snag, as shown. The rabbit, 

 bounding along, puts his head in the noose, a sHght jerk 

 frees the cross piece from its holder, and in a moment the 

 rabbit is danghng in the air. The cross piece can be 

 dispensed with if the snare be wrapped three or four times 

 around a snag. The squaws often build a Uttle hedge 

 across a rabbit thicket, so as to close all but three or four 



