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eyes. Then we set to work to read the signs 

 how it happened. 



We found by our deduction that in the first 

 place he had clainbored up on to the roof and 

 from there had entered by the wide mouthed 

 chimney. Once in the shanty he had set to 

 work to examine and investigate everything 

 about, each in turn to be cast from him on the 

 floor. 



The very last thing to attract his attention 

 was my chum's powder horn. It was one of 

 those old-fashioned cow horns with a plug in the 

 small end. There was at the time nearly half 

 a pound of gun powder in it. With this bright 

 and shining article "carajou" started to clanibor 

 up and out thru the chimney. 



Alas! he held the butt end upwards. By 

 dryness, I suppose, the plug dropped out and a 

 fine stream of powder found its way to the cen- 

 ter of our fireplace where a few coals must have 

 yet kept fire. A flame shot up, an explosion 

 followed, and down came the frightened, blinded 

 beast. No doubt from agony and fear he 

 crawled under the table where we found him 

 and put an end to his misery. 



Their legs are very strong and muscuclar 

 and I have known them to break out of even a 

 No. 4 Newhouse. When they will take bait a 

 pretty sure way to get them is by "setting a 



