GENERAL HINTS TO TRAPPERS. 25 



grounds of deer and antelope during the day 

 so that you will know where to hunt with 

 your headlight at night. 



Never fire-hunt near your traps as it will 

 disturb the game that you are attempting to 

 capture in them. 



If the bead of your rifle is not already 

 perpendicular at the back end with the bar- 

 rel take a file and make it so. This will not 

 injure it, but will make it shine as bright 

 from the headlight as from the sun. 



Always pitch your tent on a ridge or knoll 

 in rainy weather and ditch it on the inside. 



Make up your bed every morning before 

 breakfast, and make it a rule of your camp, 

 that if any one lies down on the bed during 

 the day he must be taken by the hands and 

 feet and bumped against a stump or thrown 

 into the creek. Be sure to enforce this law 

 rigidly. 



