INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



might have made discovery by stepping in it. 

 It is against the law to bait a trap with elk 

 meat, and it should be forbidden to set traps 

 around indiscriminately where sportsmen are 

 licensed to hunt; the permission implying 

 reasonable safety, which is not the case when 

 dangerous traps are set without proper safe- 

 guards. We sprung the trap and went on. 

 Some men, who are acquainted with the 

 danger arising from this source, always carry 

 a monkey-wrench when hunting or trapping. 

 A steel trap which could hold a silver-tip 

 would inflict a terrible injury upon anyone 

 who was unfortunate enough to become en- 

 trapped, even if assistance were promptly 

 rendered, and assistance being remote, might 

 cause a painful, lingering death. I knew of 

 a case where a trapper had set two No. 5 

 bear traps, and upon his return found a large 

 silver-tip in one of them. Venturing rather 

 close to the bear the enraged animal made a 

 sudden lunge at him, which the man evaded 

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