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pocket knife we can play woodpecker upon the dead spruce 
and get a fine, fat wood worm for the small hook, or shoot a 
bird or squirrel, with which we can get a chub, and then with 
this bait often a fine trout, which gives such tone and relish 
to the luncheon, by adding the speckled beauty, droz/ed. 
Soa small wallet containing hooks and lines, salt and pepper, 
a small vial for swe dry matches (as a reserve,) a surgeons 
three cornered needle, twenty or thirty yards of the finest shoe 
thread, a small piece of beeswax and a generous piece of 
surgeons court plaster, all carried in an inner pocket is quite 
correct. Now perhaps, knowing you have this needle and 
plaster, you will not cut yourself. Good! cheap insurance. 
Usually two are trapping together on the line, which is the 
pleasant way to do. They leave the home camp provided 
much like the following: One rifle for shooting bait, as well 
as for larger game should it come in the way and offer to bite 
them. Each with light hunting axe, weight two and a half 
pounds, heavy poll, thin and long bitted, with strap and case 
to carry hanging from the shoulder; good serviceable pocket 
knives which should not have fewter blades; compass, 
always; as many steel traps as they can conveniently carry 
at the start out, to be left as they grow too heavy, hanging 
them up as they work along to good chances, some to be 
set where left, others to be moved on at future times. Trappers 
leave them hanging until wanted with but little fear of their 
being stolen, for none but the lowest dregs of the half human 
would be guilty of taking them, as this is considered by all to 
be the meanest kind of thieving. Many steel traps are set 
low at the first of the season and gives the trapper more fur. 
The mink especially are dodging in and out of the low-down 
places, and is not afraid of wetting his feet, so usually the 
