ON TRE LINE -OF- TRAPS. 
ANY not at all acquainted with trapping would no doubt 
be interested to know something of what is meant by 
a line of traps. They are set in line, or are running a certain 
course, which at times may vary as we come to thick tangled 
swamps, stream and lake, though at times directly through a 
swamp, and again alongside it, when as good or better trap- 
ping, as it is the better travelling. Then down along the 
stream a piece to trap the mink, also to place a trap of well 
proven springs for ‘the otter if any chance offers, and for a 
suitable crossing to the other side of the stream to continue 
the line, yet in the main, keeping to the original course to 
reach some distant lake, stream, mountain, or lowland, which 
is to be the terminus. 
We cross the lake usually at the inlet or outlet, by canoe or 
raft. Crossing the stream often at the rips, or if not, just 
above or below by raft, which is two or three dry cedars of 
good size, cut down, rolled in and withed together. Then 
with the aid of a dry spruce pole, always to be found handy, 
we are soon on the opposite shore tying the raft securely to 
the bushes, to be there on our return. 
