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means of an auger hole) in the crotch end, reaching to 

 the under side of the latch stick. When the bear steps 

 on the board and i^resses it down, he will raise the crotch 

 end, and the post wnll throw the latch out of the notch, 

 when it will no longer hold the lever, and the dead- 

 pole will fall 

 across his back. 

 The dead - jDole 

 should be heavily- 

 weighted by lay- 

 ing logs across it. 

 ^^^^_^ The trap** should 

 _1 be baited with 

 honey, for the 

 bear will always 



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risk his life to get 

 at this. Fresh meat will bait it for the wolf or for a dog. 

 This is preferable to the steel trap, for there is no 

 danger of catching men or cattle in it ; and its cost is 

 trifling. The plan, fig. 2, page 80, wdll help the description : 

 A, the bed-piece ; ^, the dead-pole, of which a section 

 only is shown ; C (7, the guides ; D, the lever post ; -E', 

 the lever ; i^, the latch ; G, the latch post outside of the 

 house; JI IlJS^y the house or enclosure; I, the treadle 

 for springing the trap ; iT, the bed-piece, across which the 

 treadle is balanced ; X, the post to knock off the latch ; 

 JLT, the latch post inside of the house. In fig. 3 some parts 



of the trap are given, which are obscured in fig. 2. 

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