Show Trap plu n drizzly trapping grizzly has its perils anil also the trap employed 1 of alio spring witha jaws and weighs complete thirty ight pounds tim spring aro anil lave to bo lent wiehl it is quite au art to set andi place a trap cunningly and trappers vary in their methods and arc chary of explaining I 1 will alivn pass branch of the subject let us 1 therefore blidt thi hunter has made his camp in a neighborhood redolent ot grizzlier grizzlies grizz lies and that lie lias his trail set in a likely piano for bear at tho end of tho trap chain is i rin rubout liyo inclima in diameter and taij w abacut half afoo t avor tho 0 slick ar jo iivo nal six or eight feet long alic object of his crog as it u called is to make a trail which can bo readily followed anil to hamper tho bear to prevent his going to r great distance away before the can arrive great care buist be taken that alio llio clinin bo fastened to alio extreme anil of the clog in such a way that it cannot get across two trees anil so giau tho bruto a chance to use hid enormous strength to tear himself loose neither must tho clog bo too largo and heavy or the same result will follow it may bo accepted as a maini that a grizzly caught in such a trap will eventually get loose and ordinarily in a few hours lie is generally by tho extremity of alio llio forca iw just abobo the claws alio hold on him is not very groat his exertions to get anway aro tremendous and alio result in so cutting and lacerating tho foot that sooner or later lie will tear ont of the trap altogether two grizzlier grizzlies grizz lies that I 1 got away one who was probably taken by the claws almac leaving some hairs only to tell the the other leaving a small picco of liis foot behind as a souvenir many had all but torn tham booc in anc case tho foot was almost cut through ami only a small niece of skin lie thickness of n mans little linger remained to leold tho terribly infuriated monster to the much dc clog the traps aro set far back in denso and gloomy forests acir alio llio swamps where grizzlier grizzlies grizz lies love to mako their la r the ground is covered fallen timber and travel must be afoot and is slow and didi cult the bear on being caught starts off on a tremendous husli for alic swamp id celoso by hero ho catches on a rotten log for a second and plows a through wide enough for a dirt there lio hang on two fallen trees fitly feet long but lie hangs for an instant only moves alio great trees to one side and rushes on next ho striker against a his rage turns and rats liu out of it leaving tho frash while pino red with blood stains from his gums now he reaches tho swamp and i deep into its recesses venting his rago in alio bi wiliams liams and poplars absolutely chewing down saplings and even gnawing them into lengths liko stove wood all this time ho is but surely tearing his foot boc from the tho trap anil not slowly is lie working himself up into the most degree of rage and ferocity then you have thus trapped a eliou fand pound grizzly grizz lv ou have not caught a bear you havo simply caught the devil ot indeed tho question is not whether you havo the bear but whether you have not simply given him a birst opportunity to catch you now let us seo how this ia the grizzly alun caught and thus woric 1 up into alic most formidable ferocity has to be followed up afoot birst through a denu furgat and taca carefully into tho heart of tangled swamp where one cannot ten ahead and where if the monster should suddenly rise directly in front and chaia trap clog and all retreat would bo absolutely impossible add to this that nt the time of tho hunters arrival lie bear may have just succeeded in tearing hii foot loose or may have just managed to break hia chain or may havu just finished eating up alic clog bodily all of which things have happened in my lio would then be in a beautiful state of frenzy ami would bo perfectly delighted to wipe out a hunter or two if only to anict down his nerves forest UK |