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Snowshoes.
"That's for Annette," said Rolf, remembering his promise as he hung the stretched marten skin to dry.
"Yi! Yi! Yi!" came three yelps, just as he had heard them the day he first met Quonab, and crossing the narrow lake he saw his partner's canoe.
"We have found the good hunting," he said, as Rolf steadied the canoe at the landing and Skookum, nearly well again, wagged his entire ulterior person to welcome the wanderer home.

The first thing to catch the boy's eye was a great, splendid beaver skin stretched on a willow hoop.
"Ho, ho!" he exclaimed.
"Ugh; found another pond." "Good, good," said Rolf as he stroked the first beaver skin he had ever seen in the woods.
"This is better," said Quonab, and held up the two barkstones, castors, or smell-glands that are found in every beaver and which for some hid reason have an irresistible attraction for all wild animals.

To us the odour is slight, but they have the power of intensifying, perpetuating, and projecting such odorous substances as may be mixed with them.
No trapper considers his bait to be perfect without a little of the mysterious castor.

So that that most stenchable thing they had already concocted of fish-oil, putrescence, sewer-gas, and sunlight, when commingled and multiplied with the dried-up powder of a castor, was intensified into a rich, rancid, gas-exhaling hell-broth as rapturously bewitching to our furry brothers as it is poisonously nauseating to ourselves--seductive afar like the sweetest music, inexorable as fate, insidious as laughing-gas, soothing and numbing as absinthe--this, the lure and caution-luller, is the fellest trick in all the trappers' code.
As deadly as inexplicable, not a few of the states have classed it with black magic and declared its use a crime.
But no such sentiment prevailed in the high hills of Quonab's time, and their preparations for a successful trapping season were nearly perfect.
Thirty deadfalls made by Quonab, with the sixty made on the first trip and a dozen steel traps, were surely promise of a good haul.