In the Sunk Lands — page 178: what you’re looking at

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IN THE SUNK LANDS. 163 it would be a good place for a trap. So they placed one in the place referred to in the preceding chapter, driving the blade on the chain into a convenient log. ‘* Maybe it will catch a fox, coon or wea- sel,” Joe explained. ‘‘ Well set them in a _ eircle, so as to get through somewhere near the cabin.” ‘“T imagine it will be great sport to take a tramp like this every morning,” grum- bled Treve, ‘‘ and if I understand it right, that is what we ought to do. For my part, I prefer to shoot.” ‘So do I,” replied Bob, ‘*‘ but you don’t get so many, and unless you use a bullet the shot will spoil the pelt. Then trapping is less expensive.” “Oh, I know all that,” acquiesced Treve, ‘but there is more sportin hunting. Give me a gun every time.” «There go the dogs,” broke in Joe. ‘* After a rabbit I expect, so let them go.” As the reader knows it was rather a savage kind of rabbit. They kept on, blazing the trees and set- ting the traps wherever the prospect looked promising, until the fifty-four had dwindled GEomichbooks: co m