the wolf free; and all the hunter got for his pains
was a dead dog and a broken trap--while the wolf went scot free.

The Chipewyan and Slave Indians set their traps inside a lodge made of
eight or ten poles, seven or eight feet in length, placed together
lodge fashion and banked round with a wall of brush to prevent the fox
entering except by the doorway. The trap is set in the usual way, just
outside the entrance, the chain being fastened to one of the door
poles. Instead, however, of being placed on the snow around the trap,
the mixed bait is put on a bit of rabbit skin fastened in the centre of
the lodge; the idea being that the fox will step on the trap when he
endeavours to enter. The Louchieux Indian sets his trap the foregoing
way, but in addition he sets a snare in the doorway of the lodge, not
so much to catch and hold the fox, as to check him from leaping in
without treading on the trap.

Oo-koo-hoo told me that whenever a trap set in the usual way had failed
to catch a fox, he then tried to take advantage of the cautious and
suspicious nature of the animal by casting about on the snow little
bits of iron, and re-setting and covering his trap on the crest of some
little mound close at hand without any bait whatever. The fox,
returning to the spot where he had scented and seen the bait before,
would now scent the iron, and becoming puzzled over the mystery would
try to solve it by going to the top of the mound to sit down and think
it over; and thus he would be caught.

Another way to try for a fox that has been nipped in a trap and yet has
got away is to take into account the strange fact that the animal will
surely come back to investigate the source of the trouble. The hunter
re-sets the trap in its old position and in the usual way; then, a
short distance off, he builds a little brush tepee, something like a
lynx-lodge, which has a base of about four feet, and by means of a
snare fastened to a tossing-pole, he hangs a rabbit with its hind feet
about six inches above the snow. A mixed-bait stick is placed a little
farther back, in order to attract the fox, while another trap is set
just below the rabbit. The idea of re-setting the first trap in the
old position is to put the fox off his guard when he approaches the
dead rabbit hanging in the snare. As, no doubt, he has seen a rabbit
hang many times before, and snares so baited he has often robbed. The
Indian in his extreme care to avoid communica