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Something Wrong at the Beaver Traps.
Once they had run the trap lines, and their store of furs was increasing finely.

They had taken twenty-five beavers and counted on getting two or three each time they went to the ponds.

But they got an unpleasant surprise in December, on going to the beaver grounds, to find all the traps empty and unmistakable signs that some man had been there and had gone off with the catch.

They followed the dim trail of his snowshoes, half hidden by a recent wind, but night came on with more snow, and all signs were lost.
The thief had not found the line yet, for the haul of marten and mink was good.