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traps and seek new fields, or kill the mischiev- 

 ous animal, for even should the line be ten miles 

 long the Indian Devil will destroy or put out of 

 order each trap to the very end. Their favor- 

 ite plan is to tear out the back of the trap. If 

 they find a marten caught and they are not hun- 

 gry, they will carry it off at right angles to the 

 trail and bury it in the snow, or climb a tree 

 and deposit it on a cross branch. I have found 

 no fewer than three martens when visiting my 

 trap road a day after the wolverine had passed. 



Once when chum and I were off for a couple 

 of nights from our main camp, on our return we 

 missed a toboggan from in front of the shanty 

 door. This was passing strange as no Indians 

 were in the vicinity, nor had passed our way. 

 Hunt as we did in every conceivable place did 

 not produce the missing sled. It was only two 

 years after when camping in the same place and 

 felling a dry spruce for firewood that the to- 

 boggan and tree came to earth together. The 

 mystery was solved, a wolverine had drawn it 

 up in the top branches of the tree and left it. 



I remember a laughable occurrence that took 

 place once. Chum and I had a small log shanty 

 on the edge of a big lake. This was our head- 

 quarters. Radiating from the shanty we had 

 lines of traps to the four points of the compass 

 and we often slept out a night, visiting and 



