Drawing No. 1 shows it used for bait; a snare can be used on it at the same time by putting the drop or weight where it isn't liable to fall on the animal. Put the weight on the other side of tree or make it fall with the animal to one side. In this case a pole must be strictly used. A good sized rock is all right for small animals. The closer spikes 1 and 2 are together and the longer the tugger end on bottom, the easier it will pull off. Fig. 1.--Spike driven in tree one-half inch deeper than spike No. 2 (Fig. No. 2) to allow for notch. 3--Bait on end of trigger. 4--Heavy rock or log. 5--Wire, fine soft steel. 6--Trigger with notch cut in it. 7--Notch cut in trigger Fig G. Spike No. 2 must have head cut off and pounded flat on end. In setting it across a trail a peg must be driven in the ground. In this peg the spikes are driven instead of tree as in drawing No. 1. The end of brush stick in between peg and trigger end and when an animal comes either way it will knock the brush and it knocks out the trigger. Good, soft steel wire should be used In setting this deadfall along river bank a stout stick can be driven in bank and hang out over water. This stick will take the place of a limb on tree. One end of a pole held in a slanting position by weighing one end down with a rock will do the same as limb on tree. If a tree is handy and no limb, lean a stout pole up against the tree and cut notches in it for wire to work on. [Illustration: TRAIL SET DEADFALL.] 1--Trail. 2--Log. 3--Trigger same as for bait on top deadfall drawing. 4--Stake driven in ground with spikes driven in it same as above in tree. 5--Spikes same as above. 6--Wire. 7--Tree. 8--Brush put in trail with one end between trigger and peg to knock off trigger when touched. This deadfall has never failed me and when trapping in parts of the country where lynx, coyote or wolverine are liable to eat marten in traps, use a snare and it will hang 'em high and out of reach. Snare to be fastened to trigger. Of course a little pen has to be built when setting this deadfall with bait. In setting in trail it beats any deadfall I have ever used for such animals as have a nature to follow a trail. A fine wire can also be tied to the trigger and stretched across trail instead of a brush and tied on the opposite side of trail. I like it, as the weight can be put high enough from the ground to kill an elk when it drops. CHAPTER II. BEAR AND COON DEADFALL.