Bingo 



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During that same winter I caught many wolves 

 and foxes who did not have Bingo's good luck 

 in escaping the traps, which I kept out right 

 into the spring, for bounties are good even when 

 fur is not. 



Kennedy's Plain was always a good trapping 

 ground because it was unfrequented by man and 

 yet lay between the heavy woods and the set- 

 tlement. I had been fortunate with the fur 

 here, and late in x\pril rode in on one of my 

 regular rounds. 



The wolf-traps are made of heavy steel and 

 * have two springs, each of one hundred pounds 

 power. They are set in fours around a buried 

 bait, and after being strongly fastened to con- 

 cealed logs are carefully covered in cotton and 

 in fine sand so as to be quite invisible. 



A prairie wolf was caught in one of these. I 

 killed him with a club and throwing him aside 

 proceeded to reset the trap as I had done so 

 many hundred times before. All was quickly 

 done. I threw the trap- wrench over toward the 



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