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or hoist a log large enough to swing the bear. 

 Conceal the trap well and leave everything as 

 you found it. Do not use any bait on the 

 trail, but go up the trail for fifty yards or more 

 until you find an open place on one side or 

 the other ; here set a trap twenty feet on one 

 side of the trail in the manner just described, 

 using your swinging-jack. Commencing at 

 the trail, let fall one drop of the bait every two 

 feet until you get within two feet of your trap, 

 then, skipping that, place forty or fifty drops 

 of the bait on the opposite side and two feet 

 from it. The bear in traveling his own trail 

 will strike the trail of bait and follow it over 

 the trap. 



If you find the bear destroying your corn 

 in the field, follow along the fence until you 

 find where its trail crosses it. Set the trap 

 on the inside five or six feet from the fence 

 on the trail, and drop three or four ears of 

 corn and three or four drops of your bait on 

 the opposite side of the trap from the fence. 



