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arrival seemed so problematical, that he dismissed 

 it, and rolling himself up in his fur robes, was soon 

 sound asleep. 



By the time Paul and the Canadian had finished 

 their breakfast on the following morning, Mr, 

 Groves had not turned up ; but seeing that his 

 lengthened absence caused no alarm to Pierre, the 

 young man said nothing beyond a casual remark, 

 and with great alacrity slipping on his snow-shoes, 

 followed the hunter to visit the traps they had 

 made on the previous day. As on that occasion, 

 the Canadian dragged after him the little hand- 

 sleigh, which he hoped would be wanted to carry 

 back the trapped game. 



After about half an hour's walk, the moo9e 

 skeleton, near v^hich Pierre had set his wolf-gins, 

 v/as reached, and here one trap was found missing, 

 the trail in the snow plainly indicating in which 

 direction the captured animal had dragged it. 

 Within a hundred yards of the spot where it had 

 been set, the stake at the end of the chain entangled 

 in a bush, stood the gin, holding in its powerful 

 jaws a handsome grey wolf, caught by the fore-leg. 

 A blow on the head soon deprived it of life, and 

 placing the carcase in the hand-sleigh, Pierre, 

 having reset the gins, again moved forward. Paul 

 was most anxious to see a marten caught, and 



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