400 - ' HUNTING, FISHING, &0. 
‘To destroy and get. rid of rats and mice, lay bufdock burs 
in and around their holes. Or take a barrel or tub and fill it ——_ 
eighteen inches with water, and hang a swing cover on it— 
tie a piece of cheese one side, and as they jump on they will 
tumble into the water. But the quickest way, in cold 
_ Weather, is to bait them a few nights with Indian meal and 
stir in a little arsenic with the meal, put it in their way, and 
- you will sweep them all off in one night. — 
‘The panther, wild cat, catamount, linck and common aut 
are the most ferocious, sly and subtle kind that inhabit North 
America—are hard to trap. They are very daring, and the 
light of fire will allure them, and many times they will ven- 
ture close upon you before you are award of their near ap- 
proach, and there is no better way to take them than to use 
the fire-arms. The cat kind and panther will crawl softly 
towards their prey till they are close upon it, and make one. 
tremendous mone oat = their a or —_ ae go no 
In hipaa, of the pen whoria ee ow, ashe iahab- 
ited this now thick-settled, fertile country, they made use of 
birch bark canoes to traverse and cross the streams, rivers, 
lakes and ponds, and as occasion required, they carried them 
from river to river, and from lake to lake, on their shoulders, 
to enable them to cross and float at their leisure—to enable — 
them to-fish and catch game. When they werein pursuit of 
the reindeer, near some river or lake, the deer would, to avoid 
their grasp, plunge into the water a short distance all but the 
nose, and the Indians, in order to take them, would launch’ 
_ their bark canoe and follow them, and when coming up would 
beat their brains out with their paddles. In taking the bear 
er, they would traverse the woods, and if happily they 
low tree well scratched up, they cut it down, and 
many times found: a een fat bear in a —_ senseless state 
