This spoiled meat will do for bait.

Get me a good piece of poplar wood, Tom, or cypress, or some other sort, that I can whittle easily, and I'll make some figure-four triggers.

Then I'll tell you how to make dead-falls, and you must set as many of them as you can to make sure of getting something to eat by to-morrow morning." Tom brought the wood and Sam soon whittled out several sets of triggers.
"Now do you know how to set a trap with these triggers, Tom ?" he asked.
"Yes, I've set many a partridge trap with figure fours." "Very well then.

Now you must set dead-falls in the same way.

That is, instead of a trap you must set a log.