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whiff of it, that it forms not only an irresistible but a long- 

 range allurement for many kinds of fur-bearers. Indeed, so 

 pungent was it, that Oo-koo-hoo carried merely a httle of it 

 in a cap-box, and found that a tiny daub was quite sufficient 

 to do his work. The reason for using the two kinds of bait 

 was that while the mixed bait would attract the animal to the 

 trap by its scent, the sight of the duck's head would induce the 

 fox to enter the hole, step upon the unseen trap while reaching 

 to secure its favourite food, and thus be caught by a foreleg. 



The mention of an animal being caught by a foreleg reminds 

 me of the strange experience that Louison Laferte, a French 

 half-breed, manservant at Fort Rae, once had with a wolf. 

 Louison was quite a wag and at all times loved a joke. One 

 day while visiting one of his trapping paths with his four-dog 

 team he came upon a wolf caught in one of his traps by the 

 foreleg. After stunning the brute, he found that its leg was in 

 no way injured, for it had been in the trap but a short time. 

 Louison, in a sudden fit of frohc humour, unharnessed his Num- 

 ber 3 dog and harnessed in its place the unconscious wolf. 

 When the wild brute came to, and leaped up, the half-breed 

 shouted: '*Ma-a-r-r-che!'' and whipped up his dogs. Off they 

 went, the two leading dogs pulling the wolf along from in 

 front, while the sled-dog nipped him from behind and en- 

 com-aged him to go ahead. Thus into Fort Rae drove the gay 

 Louison with an untamed timber-wolf in harness actually help- 

 ing to haul his sled as one of his dog-team. The half-breed 

 kept the wolf for more than a month trying to train it, but it 

 proved so intractable and so vicious that fearing for the children 

 around the Post, eventually he killed it. 



DOG TRAILING FOX 



It is generally conceded by the most experienced fur-hunters 

 of the northern forest, that while the wolverine is a crafty brute 



