64 SHOOTING " FOR LOCK." 



Fig. 1 shows this contrivance when gillrad ; A is a 

 young and pliant tree, bent downwards, in the form of a 

 bow ; B a stout line, the halter, in short, which at the lower 

 end is provided with the hook c, in preference of bone, as 

 foxes are shy of iron. At some few feet from the tree A, 

 is the stump D, to which a sort of double block E (see 

 Fig. 2) is securely fastened by means of a Hank or otherwise. 

 When the trap is gillrad, the line B (within a foot of the end 

 of which is a knot) is inserted double between the rollers of 

 the block E, where it is fixed as slightly as may be by the 

 wedge F. 



When therefore the fox tugs at the bait, generally a piece 

 of fresh meat, the wedge F falls, the line flies out of the 

 block ; and the tree righting itself, Michel as seen in Fig. 3 

 is forthwith dancing in space. 



By imitating the cry of other animals, the fox is believed, 

 as said, to lure them to destruction. One can therefore be 

 little surprised that he himself is circumvented by the same 

 means. This plan applicable alike to other animals is in 

 Sweden called to shoot for Lock, and is especially adopted 

 during the breeding season. 



M. Winberg tells us he has practised the plan with success. 

 Having discovered a fox-earth, he, with boughs, erected a 

 sort of hut in the immediate vicinity of the spot, where he 

 hid himself; and as soon as he commenced Lockning, the 

 cubs, even at some distance in the surrounding wood, would 

 " manifestly and distinctly respond to his call," and after a 

 while approach so near as to enable him to shoot them. 



The Count Corfitz Beckfriis has also tried this experiment 

 with success. " On one occasion during a Chasse," he writes, 

 " I heard the barking of a cub, and on approaching the 



