480 LUDER-PLATS. 



The Chamberlain L. G. Kolthoff, in allusion to the 

 same subject, tells us, that in his part of the country the 

 peasants have an easy method of discovering a wolfs lair. 

 " The cubs," says that gentleman, " almost always let their 

 whereabouts be known in the night time, when they are 

 alone, and the mother absent on a foray. If, therefore, one 

 goes into the forest when the young are pretty well grown, 

 and especially between eleven and twelve o'clock, and listens 

 attentively for their screeching cry, their whereabouts may be 

 readily ascertained." 



A good many wolves are also killed in Skalls ; not, how- 

 ever, during the summer, owing chiefly to the locale of those 

 beasts being then uncertain, but in the regularly organized 

 winter Skalls, mentioned in my former work, where Skall- 

 platser are previously prepared ; for when the beasts are con- 

 gregated at the Luder-plats or the spot where carrion is 

 exposed for the purpose of attracting wild beasts, and sur- 

 rounded not alone with Jagt-tyg, but six to seven hundred 

 men it is hardly possible for them to escape. 



Such Skall-platser, however, owing to the expense and 

 trouble attendant on keeping them up, &c., are not of 

 frequent occurrence in Sweden ; but they are, nevertheless, 

 to be met with in the provinces most infested by wolves. 

 Considerable execution is done at them. In those near to 

 Stockholm, it is on record, for instance, that "from 1821 

 to 1828, a period of eight years, in the course of which 

 thirty-five great Skalls took place, one hundred and fifty- 

 four full-grown wolves were killed ! and this independently 

 of some fifty cubs, which were found in the females, on 

 opening their bodies after death." The Skalls in question 



