They failed to get sight of him in 

 all this time, so the partners set to 

 work at a series of Bear-traps. These 

 are made of heavy logs and have a 

 sliding door of hewn planks. The bait 

 is on a trigger at the far end; a tug 

 on this lets the door drop. It was a 

 week's hard work to make four of 

 these traps. They did not set them at 

 once, for no Bear will go near a thing 

 so suspiciously new-looking. Some 

 Bears will not approach one till it is 

 weather-beaten and gray. But they re- 

 moved all chips and covered the newly 

 cut wood with mud, then rubbed the 

 inside with stale meat, and hung a lump 

 of ancient venison on the trigger of 

 each trap. 



They did not go around for three 

 days, knowing that the human smell 

 must first be dissipated, and then they 

 found but one trap sprung the door 



