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their rank odour and bleating best serve to attract tbe 

 wolves. In some thicket, screened from view, pens, so to 

 say, are formed by means of long and pointed stakes, and 

 so strongly put together that wild beasts cannot rend them 

 asunder. During the day-time the goats are allowed to be 

 together, but at night each is confined by himself to induce 

 them to bleat to one another. 



The darker the fence from age the better the Varg-gard 

 succeeds, and if only kept in repair and that the Gran-ris, 

 forming the chevaux-de-frise be renewed annually, it will 

 last for many years. Should one not have leisure in the 

 summer time to attend to it properly, it is better at that 

 season to leave the gate at all times open. 



Wolves and other noxious animals are also frequently 

 destroyed at the Luder-plats itself, by means of Gillrade 

 Gevar, or fire-arms, set in the manner of spring guns. Even 

 before the invention of gunpowder, people adopted a some- 

 what similar mode, which they expressively called Sjelf- 

 skjut, or self-shot. For they were accustomed so to place 

 bent bows, that on the beast touching a certain string, the 

 arrow was released and pierced him to the heart. 



But the more common plan of killing wolves when con- 

 gregated at the Luder-plats, is by a species of Jagt, or 

 hunting, which the Swedes call Skytte for ylugg that is, 

 shooting from a small aperture in the side walls of a 

 cow-house or other out-building, or it may be from a hut 

 erected for the special purpose, near to which the Luder con- 

 sisting generally of a dead horse is placed. But this method 

 can only be adopted in the winter time, say from November, 

 when the snow first falls, to about the end of March. 



"The Glugg," so we are told, "ought to be somewhat 



