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the rear, tumbling over the fallen trees and get- 

 ting pocketed in the brush, and shouting 

 " Hullo, wait on me ; don't you see that I 'm 

 not used to this kind of walking? " A steel 

 trap was used for bruin, and a little beyond, 

 fixed hanging to an old stump, was a string 

 of fish, so arranged that he must go over the 

 trap to get at the fish. This was the case with 

 several of the traps ; another kind of bait was 

 used with the others, " otter," the Indians said, 

 and they were careful to inspect these alone. 

 But the nimrod managed to see one, and if 

 the bait was only otter, then the nimrod is a 

 bad judge of moose meat. This insight of the 

 nimrod proved afterwards to be a valuable 

 suspicion, when it came to the regular hunt 

 itself, as will in due course appear. Mean- 

 while we are only with the Indians, trapping 

 bear. The Indians were not playing in luck 

 that morning, and after looking at three traps, 

 which had been untouched, we decided on 

 lunch, which Louis, who generally acted as 

 cook, made for us from the supplies we had 

 taken with us. Here again Tenderfoot 

 showed his unfitness for the scene, by getting 



