they put a small grating of heavy steel 

 bars. The door was carefully made and 

 fitted into grooves. It was of double 

 plank, with tar-paper between to make 

 it surely light-tight. It was sheeted 

 with iron on the inside, and when it 

 dropped it went into an iron-bound 

 groove in the floor. 



They left these traps open and un- 

 set till they were grayed with age and 

 smelt no more of man. Then the two 

 hunters prepared for the final play. 

 They baited all without setting them 

 baited them with honey, the lure 

 that Monarch never had refused and 

 when at length they found the honey 

 baits were gone, they came where he 

 now was taking toll and laid the long- 

 planned snare. Every trap was set, 

 and baited as before with a mass of 

 honey but honey now mixed with a 

 potent sleeping draft. 



