. The gentleman emigrant [microform] : his daily life, sports, and pastimes in Canada, Australia, and the United States. Agriculture; Agriculture. T1 ',' THE BACKWOODS FARM. 265 to drop his booty and clear out. Caches in these woods are of no use whatsoever. Let the lumber- men hide their stores with what care they may, Mr. Mooin is pretty certain to ferret them out. Nothing comes amiss to him—^pork, molasses, salt-fish, biscuits, all go into his capacious maw, and when the cache is revisited, a few broken staves and bent keg-hoops are all that will remain of the hidden stores—-just sufficient
. The gentleman emigrant [microform] : his daily life, sports, and pastimes in Canada, Australia, and the United States. Agriculture; Agriculture. T1 ',' THE BACKWOODS FARM. 265 to drop his booty and clear out. Caches in these woods are of no use whatsoever. Let the lumber- men hide their stores with what care they may, Mr. Mooin is pretty certain to ferret them out. Nothing comes amiss to him—^pork, molasses, salt-fish, biscuits, all go into his capacious maw, and when the cache is revisited, a few broken staves and bent keg-hoops are all that will remain of the hidden stores—-just sufficient to enable the owner to fasten the guilt upon the real delinquent. Even the Indians fight shy of Mooin, and it is seMom that they sally forth for the express pur- pose of beating him up in his summer quarters. If, whilst setting their traps, they chance to meet him face to face, they trj'- the efficacy of an ounce of lead, but they have more faith in their traps than in their Brummagem shooting irons, and not without reason. A bear-trap is a formidable affair, and its con- struction a work of time and trouble. It is almost invariably on the " dead fall" principle, and weighted in accordance with the supposed strength of the animal, which, to judge by the size of the boulders piled on by the Indians, must be great indeed. The bait is a piece of salt-fish, a delicacy much relished by Mooin, and which has the advantage, moreover, of diffusing its aroma over a greater superfices than any other I *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 Stamer, W. (William). London : Tinsley
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