94 THE TRAPPER'S ART. 



from the narrowness and ignorance of mere individual cun- 

 ning, into the liberal inventiveness and broad combinations 

 which will come when trappers shall gather into conventions, 

 compare experiences, and avail themselves of the help that all 

 sciences are ready to give them. All that I can claim to have 

 done in the preceding pages is, the presentation of the art of 

 capturing animals, curing their skins, and living in the woods, 

 as it now stands, or at least as I understand it. 



