52 THE HUXTER AND TEAPPEE. 



together, Avitli a door cut in one side, two and a half feet 

 wide. Tiiis is the bottom half of the trap. Now build a 

 similar box, that, when turned upside down, will slide into 

 the bottom one, so that the space will not be above eight 

 or ten inches when they are dropped together. Now cut 

 a log of wood, say twelve inches through and twenty feet 

 long, and pin the top box directly across the end of this. 

 Support the beam across a log in such a way that the box 

 can be moved up and down, so as to open or rise out of the 

 bottom and make a space of three feet. Set this with a stand- 

 ard and spindle baited with a chunk of some kind of fresh 

 meat, daubed with honey, honey and oil of anise being 

 at the same time well smeared over the inside of the trap. 

 The heft of the top house and beam, when sprung, should 

 be enough to crush any bear that might chance that way. 

 Another good way to catch a bear when he has been com- 

 mitting depredations on a hog or other farm animals is to 

 set a big steel trap in a spring hole or swampy place, put- 

 ting a natural looking bit of moss on the pan for him to 

 step on, and hanging a bait of the dead animal where he 

 can only get it by going over the trap. 



Where bears come into cornfields, they often set spring 

 guns to slioot Mr. Bruin; but that is a dangerous way of 

 doing it. I have known men to be killed instead of the 

 bear. It is a good way to hunt the bear vritli a dog that 

 understands him, and will only nip him in the hams. This 

 will soon cause him to tree, and he is a pretty goocl 

 climber for so large an animal. He climbs almost exactly 



