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RECREATION. 



The sides are about 13 inches apart and 

 the stem of the big fir is used as the back. 

 Then I cut a stick about 4 inches thick and 

 about 2^/2 feet long and laid directly in front 



of the trap. Then I drive a stake about 2 

 feet high on the outer side of the_ 2 foot 

 stake, laying on the ground, and just far 



10 feet long, laid on top of the stick on the 

 ground in between the stakes. 



The top of the trap you cover with pine 

 branches and sticks so the animals cannot 

 get in at the top. You then put your bait 

 stick in and go. You lay your bait stick 

 on the stick on the ground, so the big end 

 of the bait stick just comes to the middle of 

 the ground stick and then put the 4 inch 

 upright in and let the dead fall down on it 

 easily. See that it does not slip. Then the 

 animal comes and pulls at the duck head, 

 loosens the upright and down comes the 

 dead fall in the middle of his back. 



That is the way to set a dead fall. 



The way to set a steel trap is different. 



You make the house, the same way; but 

 put the steel trap yi place of the dead-fall. 



The chain of the trap is attached to the 

 end of the dead fall and the trap is set, 2 

 sticks being put crosswise so the animal will 

 have to step over them into the open. trap. 



The bait is put about 6 inches in the house, 

 stuck straight down in the ground. When 

 the animal gets in he pulls the tossing pole 

 out of the notch in the tree and is conse- 

 quently thrown up. 



As to the skins: Just skin the animals 

 without cutting up the belly. Skin them the 

 same as you would pull a sweater off a man, 

 and stretch them on a board of this shape. 



To catch the tip of the nose pull it down 

 this board, the fur inside, and tack the 

 tip of legs so they will not slip. Dry 

 gradually and they will keep any length of 

 time. This is the way the Hudson Bay Co. 

 treat all their furs. 



To cafe/? t/A °f 



enough away from the last stake of the side 

 so the dead fall can fall this way. 



This sketch shows one side. The other 

 side is identical. Then comes a stick about 



McCOLLOM'S." 



ARTHUR F. RICE. 



The sportsman who desires to take his 

 family to the woods is confronted with the 

 problem of finding a place where good hunt- 

 ing and fishing and the " comforts of home " 

 are coexistent; where one may sleep in a 

 good bed at a hotel, or in a balsam-lined 

 bunk at camp, according as his inclinations 

 or the weather dictate; where a few minutes' 

 walk may take him from the porch of the 

 house to the threshold of the forest, and 

 where the presence of friends is not far 

 removed from the presence of deer and 

 trout. Such places are not very numerous 

 or easy to find; and so, for the benefit of 

 those who, like myself, can spend but a few 

 short weeks in the woods, but who want 

 their families to enjoy a long zrA pleasant 

 outing, I will say the nearest approach to 

 this ideal spot that I have found is " McCol- 

 lom's," 7 miles Northwest of Paul Smith's, 

 in Franklin County, N. Y. 



I went there almost by accident, because 

 the place where I had been going for 5 

 years — the Blue Mountain House at Spring 

 Cove, N. Y. — I found to be no longer de- 

 sirable or endurable (another fact which my 



