Show method for the fall aroun anil estabr the colder the climate tho alner the fur says tho author of tho greatest fur company of tho world in frank lesliea Le magazine and tho difficulties of obtaining the rare fura are many ermine la at its best when the cold is most intense the tawny weasel coat turning from fawn to yellow from yellow to cream and then to snow white according to tho latitude and the eca eon fox lynx marten otter and bear abo trapper can take with stol trapa of n size varying with the game or even with tho clumsy but cOl clent deadfall but the ermine abo fur of which la as easily damaged as the finest gauze must be handled differently tho hunter going the rounda of hla has noted curious tiny tracks like tha dots and dashia of tho telegraphic alphabet here anro little prints slurring into one another in a dash there a atop the quick eared stoat has paused with bendy eyes alert for snowbird or rabbit hero again a clear blank on little forager has dived below the light and wriggled forward like a snake to dart up with a plunge of his fangs into the hart blood of the unwary snow bunting from the length of the leaps tho trapper judges bo ago of tho ermine the full grown ermine has hair too coarse to bo by a barc if there fon alio tracks indicate a fuu bown animal tho trapper tho noose of a looped tapo or alro ackois tho runway from n bent twig which when springs upward with n jerk that alft tho ermano off the ground and strangles it if the tracks are like the prenta of a babyn lingers and email the trapper hopes to capture a pelt nt for a cloak perfect fur would be barnd by the twine scare co the trapper devises as cunning a death for the ermano as the ermine when it darta up through the enow and fixes its teeth in the throat et a rabbit farat he omeara bla hunting kalfe with grease then be lays i across tho track the athe trotting A IA uti ut i alvea te alie bolfe the knife Is frosted like ice ice the ermine has licked he licks the knife but alas or the resemblance between ice and steel ice turns to water under the warm steel turns that blisters and holds the foolish little stoat by his inquisitive tongue a hopeless prisoner until the trapper comes |