HOIV THE ELK IS HUNTED 



Scandinavia, and also of a contrivance which was 

 sometimes arranged beside an elk trail for killing 

 the game automatically. A sapling was cut and 

 trimmed, and attached horizontally to two trees, 

 about four feet from the ground. The slenderer 

 free end was bent sideways, resting on a rail fixed 

 horizontally at right angles to the trail. The end 

 of the sapling was secured by some trigger device, 

 and a wire attached to the trigger was stretched 

 across the trail. A heavy arrow or spear was 

 placed in a groove in the rail, and when the elk 

 pulled the trigger by striking the wire the bent 

 sapling was free to drive the arrow into the side of 

 its victim. Barriers, in funnel form, were usually 

 erected, as often in the case of drives, to guide the 

 elk to his fate. Incidentally the writer tells of 

 instances in which woodsmen have been victims 

 of this device. The use of such contrivances was 

 illegal/^ 



" Scandinavian Adventures, vol. ii., p. 105. 



