144 T^Ji^ Home of the Wolverene mid Beaver. 



the cross require no other description than their 

 name conveys. The latter derives liis name from 

 a cruciform mark running down the back and over 

 the shoulders, and not from any infirmity of temper. 

 The steel traps having been set wherever the 

 Canadian thought there was most chance of success, 

 the companions proceeded in search of the sign of 

 pine martens, fishers, and other fur-bearing animals 

 of the weazel tribe. Two diminutive tracks were at 

 length found, which the trapper pronounced to be 

 martens, and at once set to work constructing a fall 

 trap for their capture. Mr. Lord describes this 

 operation as follows : " To commence, we must 

 build a half-circle, with large stones, to the height of 

 about three feet ; this done, we next procure a 

 tolerably heavy tree, drag it to the stone building 

 we have constructed, and lay it across the entrance. 

 The heavy end should be the furthest away, the 

 lighter end we poise carefully upon an arrangement 

 of peeled sticks. As a familiar example of what I 

 mean, I may instance the figure-of-four trap used 

 by boys for catching small birds. This contrivance 

 and one end of the tree or ' fall ' are together sup- 

 ported on a smooth stick, which is built in amongst 

 the stones composing the half-circle. This support 

 stick must project horizontally from the centre of 

 the hollow of the wall, at a height of about three 



