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Title: The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely), b. 1883
Subjects: Woodwork Toys Amusements
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is commonly attached to what is knownas A Twitch-up, or a sapling bent down and held asshown in Fig. 224. One of a number of schemesemployed for holding the sapling in position is hereshown. Select a spot a few feet from a sapling, andthere make an enclosure about twelve inches in diame-ter. This should be made of twelve-inch sticks driveninto the ground in a circle, leaving an opening of aboutsix inches on one side. Drive a stake into the groundon both sides of the entrance, and cut a notch in theouter face of each about six inches above the ground(see Fig. 225). Find a twig somewhat similar to theone in Fig. 226, and, after slipping it into the notchesand baiting the prong, fasten the noose and saplingto it. With the trap thus set, a slight pull on the baitdislodges the crosspiece, and the sapling springs up,jerking the animal into the air, and causing its deathalmost instantly. Ranchers of the Western plains and mountains arecontinually experiencing severe losses from the attacks r
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HOME-MADE TRAPS 227 of wolves and coyotes upon their live-stock, and to ridthemselves from the nightly raids of these animals re-quires unceasing warfare against them with traps. Butthe wolf and coyote are very crafty fellows, and extremelykeen-scented, so that even professional trappers havetrouble in capturing them, often resorting to everyscheme they can devise without success. Steel trapsare generally employed by the professional, as they areless cumbersome and quicker to set than the home-madeaffairs. The traps are handled with gloves, as the touchof the bare hands would be instantly detected by thewary animals, and, after being placed in a circle aroundthe bait, are covered over with leaves and brush. Inorder not to leave human footprints behind him, thetrapper often sets them while mounted upon horseback. Not long ago, a trapper was hired by a rancher inNew Mexico to capture some Loboe wolves which hadbeen making serious raids upon the cattle, and one ofhis experiences while wo

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