o the trap by its scent, the sight of the duck's head would
induce the fox to enter the hole, step upon the unseen trap while
reaching to secure its favourite food, and thus be caught by a foreleg.

The mention of an animal being caught by a foreleg reminds me of the
strange experience that Louison Laferte, a French half-breed,
manservant at Fort Rae, once had with a wolf. Louison was quite a wag
and at all times loved a joke. One day while visiting one of his
trapping paths with his four-dog team he came upon a wolf caught in one
of his traps by the foreleg. After stunning the brute, he found that
its leg was in no way injured, for it had been in the trap but a short
time. Louison, in a sudden fit of frolic humour, unharnessed his
Number 3 dog and harnessed in its place the unconscious wolf. When the
wild brute came to, and leaped up, the half-breed shouted:
"_Ma-a-r-r-che_!" and whipped up his dogs. Off they went, the two
leading dogs pulling the wolf along from in front, while the sled-dog
nipped him from behind and encouraged him to go ahead. Thus into Fort
Rae drove the gay Louison with an untamed timber-wolf in harness
actually helping to haul his sled as one of his dog-team. The
half-breed kept the wolf for more than a month trying to train it, but
it proved so intractable and so vicious that fearing for the children
around the Post, eventually he killed it.

DOG TRAILING FOX

It is generally conceded by the most experienced fur-hunters of the
northern forest, that while the wolverine is a crafty brute and
difficult to hunt, yet of all forest creatures the coloured fox is the
hardest to trap. In hunting the two animals with dogs, however, there
is little comparison. The wolverine, being a heavy, short-legged
beast, can soon be overhauled in an open country or on a beaten trail
by a dog, or in deep snow even by a man on snowshoes; while the chances
of a fox being run down by a dog are not so good. Some hunters,
however, kill many foxes by running them down with dogs, and for such
work they use a light-weight, long-legged dog possessed of both long
sight and keen scent. Hunters declare that no animal, not even the
wolf, has so much endurance as a good hunting-dog.

When a hunting-dog sights a fox on a frozen lake he runs straight for
him. The fox, on realizing that he is being pursued, leaps wildly into
the air two or three times, and then makes off at tremendous
speed--much faster than the dog c