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Show TRAPPINQ WOLVES IN FnANCC Itiuei or the People lo Extort Rewards from the QoTcrntnent. Among other contrivances there) li ano that outwits the sagacity of the wolf with aa little hardship as snch a cuptuio admits. VTlthlu o circle of strong stakes, not very closely planted, a sheep or a gooso Is confined. Attv distance, of sixteen Inches Is en outer clrclo of stakes, bavin? na entrnn'o eighteen IiicIkb wide. Tho rath between be-tween tho two circles Is well beaten down. Tho door of tho outer one, which folds back against tho Inner, Is set Invitingly open. In marches, ys Blackwood's Magazine, Maga-zine, tho cautious wolf pursues the path till he comes to the back of tho open door, pushes against the yielding obstacle, and by so doing close tho en-, trance against himself. The latch falls at tho Impact of tho door against tho doorpost, and ho Is hopelessly fast, unublo to touch the decoy animal of tho Inner circle, or to leap over tho strongly planted poles of tho outer ono. Thus inglorlously ktdnapsd, tho victim vic-tim Is soon dispatched. A complaint has been ravlo that tho rowardd which the French government gives for tho slaughter of wolves are so small In comparison with tboso paid of old. But largo rownrds sometimes do moro harm than good, by making It too much tho Interest of the mercenary troops to slaughter the foe with duo respect re-spect to tho desirability of having always plenty of foes to slaughter- If all tbo stories aro truo ot the alarm nnd damago caused by wolves, it ds cot unreasonable to think that thoao ex-tKwed ex-tKwed to bo sufferers might assist in their extirpation without tho stimulus of a fee Many porta of Frane. It la true, ore . highly favorable to tho wants and hal 1 Ita of the wolf, but against modern skill and modern weapons It U bard to bcllcvo that it eould'hold its ground without the cocnlvancQ ot sportsmen, or If the government wero earnestly resolved to bo rid of It. I j, |