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falls for catching fishers. When these are used 

 they have to be made extra strong with a dead- 

 weight on the strangling part, of at least two 

 hundred pounds. Going through the woods one 

 day I came on a fisher that had killed three por- 

 cupine, only a small part of each of which he had 

 eaten, and that near the throat. He was hard 

 at work on the third one, when I shot him. 



