. Wild animals I have known and 200 drawings [microform]. Animal behavior; Animaux. ! . i. Lobo suing Lobo with hounds and horses, so that poison or traps were the only available expe- dients. At present we had no traps large enough, so I set to work with poison. I need not enter into the details of a hoa- dred devices that I employed to circumvent this ' loup-garou '; there was no combination of strychnine, arsenic, cyanide, or prussic acid, that I did not essay; there was no manner of flesh that I did not try as bait; but morning after morning, as I rode forth to learn the result, I found th
. Wild animals I have known and 200 drawings [microform]. Animal behavior; Animaux. ! . i. Lobo suing Lobo with hounds and horses, so that poison or traps were the only available expe- dients. At present we had no traps large enough, so I set to work with poison. I need not enter into the details of a hoa- dred devices that I employed to circumvent this ' loup-garou '; there was no combination of strychnine, arsenic, cyanide, or prussic acid, that I did not essay; there was no manner of flesh that I did not try as bait; but morning after morning, as I rode forth to learn the result, I found that all my efforts had been useless. The old king was too cunning for me. A single instance will show his wonderful sagacitjr. Acting on the hint of an old trapper, I melted some cheese together with the kidney fat of a freshly killed heifer, stewing it in a china dish, and cutting it with a bone knife to avoid the taint of metal. When the mixture was cool, I cut it into lumps, and making a hole in one side of each lump, I inserted a large dose of Strychnine and cyanide, contained in a capsule that was impermeable by any odor j finally I sealed the holes up with pieces of the cheese 'tself. During the whole process, I wore a 3a I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. New York : Grosset & Dunlap
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