We kept up this coon hunt as long as we could find any tracks. It was now getting along into March and we had written home for a team to come in and take our camp outfit and furs out. As we had not been out over the road through the woods, the way we came in, we made a trip out to the main wagon road so that the man who came after us would have no trouble in following the trail to the camp. We now began to spring all the deadfalls that we had set for marten, mink and coon and take up all of the steel traps as we had written to the man to be there about the fifteenth of the month. I think it was a day or two later when the team came and our hunt on the Kinzua was ended. We got some thirty odd deer and either five or six bear and I think four otter. I do not remember the number of fox, mink, marten and coon, but we did well for there had been but very little trapping done in that locality at that time and furbearing animals were quite plentiful. I have never been back to that camp since. I gave the camp to a man by the name of Ball. CHAPTER VIII. Fred and the Old Trapper. Yes, Fred, you can go with me to attend my traps, come down early as I wish to start at 5 o'clock." Fred was on hand next morning at the appointed hour. We leave the road here and go up this stream; this will take us to several traps and also to camp. "Are these woods very large?" "Yes, Fred. It is about fourteen miles either way through them." "Does any one live in them?" "No one only the lumberman. Well, Fred, here is the first trap." "I don't see any trap." "No, but it is there, just in front of that little stone pen; the bait is in the pen." "Why don't you take that bush away?" "Oh! that is part of the knack in trapping; see that is just far enough from the pen to let the animal pass through." "Oh! I see, and it will step in the trap in going through!" "That is it, exactly." "Won't the water take the brush away?" "Yes, if it gets too high, but you will see that I have put some heavy stones on the limbs that are down in the water; you also see that I turn the water above the trap by throwing up a few stones; this is done to keep the water so that it just covers the traps. You see that bunch of leaves that are a little higher than the rest of the leaves--the pan of the trap is just under those leaves." "Did that moss grow on the stone pen?" "No, I put it there to make the pen look old; you see a fox can easily step on that bunch of dry leaves that are on the pan of the trap from the bank. A fox does not like new things. You see this trap is set for mink, coon or fox, whichever may happen along." "What is the trap fastened to?" "See that limb that has moss all grown over it. The trap is stapled to it." "Can't a fox or coon drag it away?" "Yes, but not far. See the chain is stapled about the middle of the limb, and the animal would not go far before it got fast.