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398 HUNTING, FISHING, &C, 
poles terthe top and jump in, and when there they could not 
jump out. In taking bears in summer and fall, they would 
set dead-falls or traps, with two heavy logs, one over the 
other, with a figure 4, and place the bait in such a position 
that the instant they touch it the upper log falls, and they are 
eaught. — 
But since the white men have settled this country, and 
brought with them hooks, lines, nets and spears, and have 
“sought out many inventions to take the finny kind and quad- 
rupeds, they use the fire-arms and steel traps, and various 
stratagems, such as hooks of various shapes, baits and instru- 
ments of various kinds. Some use in taking fish the harpoon, 
tow-lines, lances, hooks and baits, such’ as the spoonfly or 
worm baits—seins, scoop and- -gill- nets, and thereby have 
made a trade and traffic of it, aiid have so thinned out the 
deer, elk, bear, moose, wolf and buffalo, and all kinds of 
game, : and fishes of all kinds, and the feathered Sit — 
She wide mouth fish that inhabits the streams 3 of 
“fresh water, the flesh or worm bait: ‘tay be scented with the 
oil of anise or asafcetida, and in n deep and sluggish waters 
‘qnat tities. The testicles of a female of ¢ any of 
Bete kind can be used to a good advantage in scenting 
bait.. The beaver, otter and muskrat ean be caught by set- 
g ting steel traps by the edges of ponds and running streams, 
under water, with chains attachéd to them, 0 that when 
they jump into the water after taken, they will sink and 
drown You : may bait them with sweet apples or parsnips, 
| just over the trap. Minks may be taken in the 
same . er only bait with meat. The white man, when 
