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When a fox springs a trap without being caught, he rarely 

 pauses to eat the bait, but leaps away in fright. The hunter, 

 however, knowing that the fox will soon return, not only 

 leaves the trap as the fox left it, but sets another trap, or even 

 two more, without bait, close to the first, where he thinks the 

 fox will tread when he makes his second visit. If that fails, 

 he will trace the fox's trail to where it passes between thick 

 brush and there he will set a trap in the usual way, but without 

 bait, right in the fox's track. Then he will cut brush and shore 

 up the natural bushes in such a way that, no other opening 

 being left, the fox must return by his own track, and run the 

 chance of being caught. Should that method also fail, the 

 hunter will set another trap in the trail close to the first, in the 

 hope that if one trap does not catch the fox, the next will. 



Another device is to break a bit of glass into tiny slivers which 

 the hunter mixes with grease and forms into Uttle tablets that 

 he leaves on the snow. If the fox scents them, the chances 

 are that he will swallow each tablet at a single gulp. Presently 

 he will feel a pain in his stomach. At first tliis wiU cause him 

 to leap about, but as his sufferings will only increase, he will he 

 down for an hour or so. When he finally rises to move away, he 

 will feel the pain again. Once more he will he down, and the 

 chances are that he will remain there until found either dead or 

 ahve by the hunter. 



FASHIONABLE FOOLS 



If my readers, especially my women readers, should feel 

 regret at the great suffering resulting from fur-hunting, they 

 should recall to mind its chief contributory cause — those devo- 

 tees of fashionable civilization who mince around during the 

 sweltering days of July and August in furs. The mere thought 

 of them once so filled with wrath a former acting Prime Minister 

 of Canada — Sir George Foster — that he lost his usual flow of 



