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THE OURE-BENNE. 



means of obtaining access to the berries than by the cross- 

 stick A, he hops on to it, and inserting his head in the 

 snare B, presently pays the penalty with his life. 



A second kind of " Orre-Benne," depicted above, is, 

 according to Nordholm, much used in Norrland and the 

 adjacent country. It consists of a thin board of from 

 four to six feet in length, by eighteen inches in breadth, 

 to which are affixed several hazel wands bent bow-fashion, 

 and within which are set stout horse-hair snares. " This 

 device," he tells us, "is fastened horizontally to the top 

 of a Gar-Tall, that is, a fir-tree neither green nor dry, and 

 birds flock to it as ravens do to carrion." 



