IG THE HII]SrTErw AND TEAPrEE. 



your trap clean in weak lye, grease it, and nib off all the 

 rust and dirt. Then hold it in the smoke of burning hen's 

 feathers until it is well smoked. Chain it fast to a piece 

 of wood about two feet long, and as big as your arm. 

 ISTow take the trap, chain, and clog, open a hole in tlie bed, 

 and bury them neatly in the chaff, having a piece of wood 

 under the trap to keep it steady, and a sheet of paper over 

 it so that the chaff will not jorevent its working easily. 

 Cover everything up neatly, and sprinkle the bait as usual 

 upon the bed. 



Approach the bed only from one side, stepping always 

 in the same tracks, and leave as little sign as possible that 

 you have been there. If snow has fallen since the fox was 

 last there, take a meal sieve and sift a little snow over the 

 heap and over your own footprints for some distance 

 back from the bed. 'Now I expect you will catch him, 

 but if he smells the trap and wont come to the bed while 

 it is there, take it out and clean it better, and melt some 

 beeswax, and with a feather smear it all over the trap 

 and chain. Kow put it in the bed again, and you will be 

 quite sure of the fox. 



The following is the plan of a great Canadian hunter, 

 Mr. Philemon Pennock. He says : — Select a rise of 

 ground in a back field, make a bed of ashes or mould 

 large enough to receive your steel trap level with the sur- 

 face. Bait with cheese or scraps from lard. When the 

 fox takes the bait, set your trap as follows: turn the 

 springs toAvard the jaw that holds up the pan of the trap. 



