7<D HUNTER'S AND TRAPPERS GUIDE. 



are grapes or persimmons to be found and look 

 for its tracks. On finding them, look further 

 for a crevice or angle in the forks of a log or 

 roots of a tree ; place the trap in the large 

 portion of the angle, and having concealed it 

 well, make it fast to a stake. Place the bait 

 six inches from the trap in the small portion 

 of the angle. 



If the opossum has been visiting the chicken- 

 roost, and has killed one of the fowls, place 

 its carcass in some hole or corner near where 

 it was left ; then set your trap in the manner 

 just described and you will catch the 'possum 

 the next night. 



The skin of the opossum should be re- 

 moved and stretched in the same manner as 

 that of the beaver, except that the legs should 

 be split. See page 64. 



