We travelled for a day and a half, about 40 miles, to a likely place on the creek, pitched our tent in a well sheltered spot, tied the dogs to keep them from eating the bait & possibly getting trapped & began setting out traps.
Trapping successfully means pitting ones cunning against that of the animal to be trapped, and reading the many many signs on snow, bushes, stems of trees, etc. One can tell the number of Beaver in a lodge by the size and shape of tooth marks on trees which the have been gnawing or felling. A Beaver fells a tree with his teeth, gnawing around it, and he will eventually drop that tree in the exact position from which it can be got most easily to water. Needless to say, he
