nivores. He will kill marten, mink, rac- 

 coon, muskrat, rabbit, and sometimes a 

 fox. A fisher will attack a porcupine, 

 tipping him over and biting into his 

 stomach and the underpart of the body, 

 where there are no quills. Nevertheless, 

 fisher, when trapped, are often found 

 with porcupine quills in the skin and in 

 various parts of the body. 



The fisher catches trout, and gets larger 

 ones than would satisfy the mink, so he 

 is no friend of ours. The fisher also is 

 charged with the crime of following the 

 trail of the trapper through the woods, 

 robbing his traps and eating the animals 

 caught in them. Bige vowed that he 

 "would get that fellow next winter," and 

 he "would get thirty-five dollars for his 

 hide." (Now it would bring a much 

 larger sum.) The proper procedure 

 would be to set a second and larger steel 

 trap, carefully covered and chained to a 

 tree, but without bait, in such a position 

 that when the fisher undertakes his high- 

 handed game of robbery he will walk on 



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