“I don’t seem to recall it. Guess you must have been there without me that time. But how is it? Guess that part of my education has been neglected.”
“Why, they set them in houses. No, I mean it. You see they find a tree which has fallen partly over and then they lean other trees against it and pile boughs on till they have a kind of a little lean-to with a door just large enough for Mr. Bear to enter. In the back part they put the bait, a chunk of meat or fish, and set the trap right in the doorway. Then to make sure that the bear will step on the trap they stick little pieces of wood sharp at both ends in the ground all around it so that he will be sure to step on the right spot.”
The night passed uneventfully. They had decided to risk it without keeping watch and neither awoke until the sun had been up an hour.
CHAPTER X
BOB HAS A HUNCH.
“What do you know about it, Bob?”
“Know about what?”
“Why a whole night has passed and nothing has happened.”
Bob laughed.
“That is rather unusual for a fact.”