TEAP3. 79 



and covered over so strongly that a bear cannot unroof it 

 to get at the bait tliat is to be put inside. The end of 

 the house next to the bed-piece will hold it firmly and will 

 serve as one side of the guides for the dead-pole to play 

 between. Stakes of the same sort should be driven down 

 at the other side of the bed-piece, one ojDposite each end of 

 the enclosure, to complete the guides, and these should be 

 connected with the others by extending the roof over them. 



Three inches from the outside of the enclosure, on the 

 side toward the but-end of the dead-pole, and nine mches 

 back from the bed-piece, drive down a large, soUd post. 

 Cut a groove or notch in the top of this, to hold the lever 

 and keejD it from rolling. This jDost should be about two 

 and a half feet high, or sufficient to raise the dead-pole two 

 feet at the entrance of the trap. 



Make a strong lever, say five feet long, to rest in the 

 groove at the top of the post, and support the dead-pole 

 over one end of it, so that the other end will come down 

 by the side of the enclosm-e. 



Now drive another stout post at the outside of the 

 house near its back end, so that the lever will pass down 

 a little outside of it. In this post, on the side toward the 

 dead-pole, cut a notch with the square sidft above, so that 

 a latch stick placed over the end of the lever, to hold it 

 down, will be pressed nj) against it and held there. This 

 latch stick should pass through an aperture in the side of 

 the enclosure or house and reach nearly across it, its other 

 end being held up by another post having a notch cut 



