Now the traps
can get weathered before we go round and set them. Yet we need
some strong medicine, some trapper charm."
Next morning he went forth with fish-line and fish-spear; he soon
returned with a pickerel. He filled a bottle with cut-up shreds
of this, corked it up, and hung it on the warm, sunny side of the
shanty. "That will make a charm that every bear will come to, "
he said, and left it to the action of the sun.
Chapter 27. Sick Dog Skookum
Getting home is always a joy; but walking about the place in the
morning they noticed several little things that were wrong.
Quonab's lodge was down, the paddles that stood against the
shanty were scattered on the ground, and a bag of venison hung
high at the ridge was opened and empty.
Quonab studied the tracks and announced "a bad old black bear; he
has rollicked round for mischief, upsetting things. But the
venison he could not reach; that was a marten that ripped open
the bag."
"Then that tells what we should do; build a storehouse at the end
of the shanty, " said Rolf, adding, "it must be tight and it must
be cool."
"Maybe! sometime before winter," said the Indian; "but now we
should make another line of traps while the weather is fine.
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