You see I've made the triggers big and strong, and you must put them under one end of as heavy a log as you can lift.

Then you must lay other logs on top to make it as heavy as possible, and bait it with a piece of the spoilt meat.

If anything undertakes to eat the meat to-night, the dead-fall will break its neck or back, sure.

Here are six sets of triggers and you must set six dead-falls.

We can go hungry till to-morrow, can't we, little woman ?" chucking Judie under the chin.
"We can try, anyhow," answered the little woman as cheerfully as she could, though she was by no means confident that she could do anything of the sort.