Scribner's magazine . assailable when alone, have fallenthrough the indiscretion of a trustedally. In pursuance of my quest I killed aheifer, and, putting the choice partstogether, I poisoned them, and close byset one or two rather obvious taking the head, which is consid-ered useless offal, and quite beneaththe notice of a wolf, I set it a little apartand around it placed six powerful steeltraps properly deodorized and con-cealed with the utmost care. During myoperations I kept my hands, boots, andimplements smeared with fresh blood,and afterward sprinkled the groundwith the same,
Scribner's magazine . assailable when alone, have fallenthrough the indiscretion of a trustedally. In pursuance of my quest I killed aheifer, and, putting the choice partstogether, I poisoned them, and close byset one or two rather obvious taking the head, which is consid-ered useless offal, and quite beneaththe notice of a wolf, I set it a little apartand around it placed six powerful steeltraps properly deodorized and con-cealed with the utmost care. During myoperations I kept my hands, boots, andimplements smeared with fresh blood,and afterward sprinkled the groundwith the same, as though it had flowedfrom the head ; and when the traps wereburied in the dust I brushed the placeover with the skin of a coyote, and withthe foot of the same animal made anumber of tracks over the traps. Thehead was so placed that there was a 624 THE KIXG OF CURRUMPAIV narrow passaofe between it and some mile discovered tliat the hapless wolftussocks, and in this passage I buried was Blanco. Away she went, «r^ •/^ ^>. j^^ Blanco was one of the latest Additions to the Pack—Page 623. two of my best traps, fasteninjr themto the head itself. Wolves have a habit of approachingeveiy carcass they get the vd\\(\ of, inorder to examine it, even when theyhave no intention of partaking of it,and I hoped that this habit wouldbring the Curnimpaw pack within reachof my latest stratagem. I did notdoubt that LoV)0 would detect my han-diwork about the meat, and prevent thepack approaching it, but on the headI did build some hopes, for it lookedas though it had been thrown aside asuseless. Next morning, I sallied forth to in-spect the traps, and there, oh, joy Iwere the tracks of the pack, and theplace where the beef-head and its trapshad been was empty. A hasty study ofthe trail showed that Lobo had keptthe pack from approaching the meat,but one, a small wolf, evidentlywalked in to examine the head as it layapart and had immediately set foot inone of the traps. AVe set
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