Trapping on Prairie Dog CreekAn Accident whereby we Lose one of our OxenI Fall and Break my LegLeft Alone in CampUnwelcome VisitorsA Party of Hostile Sioux Call upon me and Make Themselves at HomeOld Rain-in-the-Face Saves my LifeSnow-Bound-A Dreary ImprisonmentReturn of

Much of my time was spent in trapping quails, which were very plentiful.

"I understand that the pelts of black foxes are worth a whole lot of money," remarked Steve; "fact is, we know that to be so, because we once had such a skin given to us by a man who made a business of trapping.

TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS XXIV.

None the less she was glad when they reached the trapping ground and Onistah called a halt for dinner.

I consider the trapping of innocent bystanders to beeherhighly reprehensible, and perhaps worse.

We must now return to the camp where Walter Cameron still guarded the goods, and the men pursued their trapping avocations.

Their numbers could not be made out, but they were a sufficiently formidable band to cause much anxiety to Cameron, whose men, at the time, were scattered to the various trapping-grounds, and only ten chanced to be within call of the camp.

The trapping operations went on prosperously and without interruption from the Indians, who seemed to have left the locality altogether.

Joe and Henri devoted themselves almost exclusively to trapping beaver, in which pursuit they were so successful that they speedily became wealthy men, according to backwood notions of wealth.

"I think she's a dear," said Sheila, pink with gratitude; then, shadowing, "If only she wouldn't beat the dogs and would give up trapping.

" "Why in thunder shouldn't she trap?" "I loathe trapping.

Those were police department methods: wholesale arrests in the hope of somewhere in the net trapping the prey.

All through the summer there was a procession of birchbark canoes, filled with red men and white, coming down the river to the bay, laden with skins of wolf, fox, beaver, wolverine, squirrel, and skunk, the harvest of the winter's trapping.

I have been wishing all the morning that I were a man; then I could go off hunting, trapping, or even lumbering, and so breathe fresh air all day long.

He also complained of white and half-breed hunters intruding on their grounds, whose means for trapping and killing animals are superior to those of the Indians.

When occurring they are more often than not the result of direct injury, as, for example, violent blows, the trapping of the foot in railway points, the running over of the foot with a heavily-laden waggon, or violent kicking against a gate or a wall.

Perhaps even in spite of all that had happened she still might be able to aid Chief Fleck in trapping them.

Besides the sight of the long lines of white swans on the Fleet, there is an interesting decoy for trapping wild duck, the procedure being explained by the courteous attendant.

He offered him arms, but the boy refused them all, except a little trapping axe.

As the Cree fired, the boy whipped up his horse, and rode up beside the Cree and struck him with his little trapping axe, and knocked him off his horse.

I hate this dairying, it's too slow for a funeral: there would be more life in trapping 'possums out on Timlinbilly.

He and other woodsmen came back there off and on, hunting and trapping, and living in huts made of buffalo hides; just such huts as the hunters dwelt in on the Little Missouri and Powder rivers as late as 1883, except that the plainsmen generally made dug-outs in the sides of the buttes and used the hides only for the roofs and fronts.

He spent most of his time in hunting, trapping, and surveying land warrants for men of means, being paid, for instance, two shillings current money per acre for all the good laud he could enter on a ten-thousand acre Treasury warrant.

He felt it all the more because, though his jacket and leggings were trimmed with the scalps of his enemies, he had lately been forced to receive charity from the white man's hand, This was when, starving and nearly frozen, he had fallen helpless in the forest, after an unlucky trapping excursion; a settler had found him there, given him food and drink and sent him on his way with a bountiful supply of provisions.