Hunting the Grizzly 



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trap, set to decoy the game thus. First, be- 

 fore the trap was set signs of beaver must be 

 fresh. New brush you will notice cut and 

 peeled, fresh signs on the slide, web-footed 

 tracks in the clay and sand, freshly cut alder 

 sticks floating in the water about the slide — all 

 indicate to the experienced trapper that the 

 wary beaver has his home among the drift- 

 wood and fallen tree-tops of the neighboring 

 mountain stream. The trapper selects a place 

 near the foot of the slide, the most suitable for 

 his purpose, to set his trap. As the old 

 beaver is very cunning the trapper pro- 

 ceeds to wade into the water at a point some 

 yards below the slide, digs out a small hole 

 in the bank about three or four inches below the 

 surface of the water, and there fixes his steel 

 trap, all previously set. Around the trap he 

 places a few small upright sticks, requiring 

 the beaver to go right over the pan of the 

 trap in order to reach the scent as arranged. 

 The scent is made by each trapper according 

 to his own fancy, and the nature of it is al- 

 ways guarded with great secrecy; this trapper 

 was very loathe to divulge the ingredients of 



