Not far did they need to go; held in a thicket they found him, and Rolf prepared the mid-day meal while Quonab gathered the pelt.

After removing the skin the Indian cut deep and carefully into the body of the fox and removed the bladder.

Its contents sprinkled near each of the traps was good medicine, he said; a view that was evidently shared by Skookum.
More than once they saw the track of the big fox of the region, but never very near the snare.

He was too clever to be fooled by smell-spells or kidney products, no matter how temptingly arrayed.

The trappers did, indeed, capture three red foxes; but it was at cost of great labour.