CHAPTER IV 



JIM THE TRAPPER OF LAKE CHELAN 



SKETCHING A MISCHIEVOUS GNOME NEEDLESS CRUELTY IN 

 SPORT, SCIENCE AND ART VICIOUS STEEL TRAPS HOW p- 

 FEELS TO BE CAUGHT IN A TRAP A MAN IN A TRAP HOW 

 TO FIX A STEEL TRAP WITH PADS CHARLES DANA GIBSON, 

 THE ARTIST, AND LANGDON GIBSON, THE ARCTIC EXPLORER, 

 AS NATURALISTS A SHORT-TAILED MEADOW MOUSE 

 THAT NEVER MISSED A CHANCE HABITS OF THE MEADOW 

 MOUSE CATCHING A MUSKRAT BY THE TAIL WITH 

 HAND BIG RATS IN CAMP A DANGEROUS CAPTIVE 



In the last chapter the Cascade Mountains were 

 mentioned as the place where the particular pack 

 rat, from which the accompanying studies were 

 made, was captured; but it really happened in a 

 wing of the Cascades, known as the Chelan Moun- 

 tains. 



This range is split in twain by a huge crack and 

 between the two halves, at the bottom of the crack, 

 lies Chelan Lake, a long, narrow, deep body of 

 water with steep and often precipitous sides spring- 

 ing up from the water and forming the shore. 

 Wherever a mountain torrent finds its way to the 

 lake it makes a delta at its mouth, composed of 



boulders of all sizes. These deltas form the only 



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